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Additional Commentary on Illinois Repeal

By Steve Hall

Scott Turow writes the must-read Chicago Tribune OpEd, "The right has reason to applaud."  In addition to being a former federal prosecutor and a best-selling novelist, Turow was a member of the Illinois Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment. Gov. Pat Quinn's decision to abolish the death penalty in Illinois is commonly viewed as a triumph for progressives. But some of the most persuasive arguments for doing away with capital punishment basically reflect conservative views. The last decade has seen many noted conservatives, including George Will, Richard Viguerie and L. Brent Bozell III, emerge as death penalty opponents. One reason that abolition became a political possibility here was not simply because it attracted Republican votes in the Illinois House and the Senate, but because many conservatives have grown more ambivalent about the issue and less fierce in their opposition...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 11, 2011 (boomark / email).