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The American Enterprise Institute carries an item from the February 4 Weekly Standard, "Religion and the Death Penalty."  It's written by AEI resident scholar Walter Berns.The best case for the death penalty--or, at least, the best explanation of it--was made, paradoxically, by one of the most famous of its opponents, Albert Camus, the French novelist. Others complained of the alleged unusual cruelty of the death penalty, or insisted that it was not, as claimed, a better deterrent of murder than, say, life imprisonment, and Americans especially complained of the manner in which it was imposed by judge or jury (discriminatorily or capriciously, for example), and sometimes on the innocent. Camus said all this and more, and what he said in addition is instructive...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 28, 2008 (boomark / email).