Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men
by kafkaesq on Monday September 19, 2016 @04:57PM
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This is the core of the problem.
The core argument I see being made -- not even mentioned in your list -- is the effective impossibility that the death penalty can ever be fairly enforced in our justice system (given that it doesn't just err occasionally; it errs frequently and systematically). Combined, of course, with the uniquely irreversible nature of the death penalty itself.
All the other arguments don't matter.
Others disagree.
If justice requires a life for a life,
An assumption which not only everyone shares, but which is on its face quite problematic.
The core argument I see being made -- not even mentioned in your list -- is the effective impossibility that the death penalty can ever be fairly enforced in our justice system (given that it doesn't just err occasionally; it errs frequently and systematically). Combined, of course, with the uniquely irreversible nature of the death penalty itself.
All the other arguments don't matter.
Others disagree.
If justice requires a life for a life,
An assumption which not only everyone shares, but which is on its face quite problematic.