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'Buyer's Remorse' Sets In Over Capital Punishment

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That's the title of an OpEd in today's Austin American-Statesman by Bob Van Steenburg, the Vice-President of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.  LINKThe U.S. Supreme Court recently took up the argument of whether or not a state's means of conducting a lethal injection execution constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. On one hand, it's an important issue. When we sentence people to die, we do not sentence them to suffer wanton and unnecessary pain in the process. That is why the history of executions in western civilization has evolved toward finding what supposedly are more humane ways of seeking death. On the other hand, the issue, despite its importance, misses the forest for the trees. A larger question should be: After a 30-year, modern-day experiment with capital punishment, is momentum in the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 18, 2008 (boomark / email).