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The State of Capital Punishment

By Steve Hall

A handful of weekend articles examine the current state of capital punishment in the nation.  First, a column by James Cummings.  He's a staff writer at Ohio's Dayton Daily News.  It's titled, "Death penalty is being phased out."  Here's an extended excerpt of this must-read:There have been 35 people executed in the United States this year, the most recent being Daytonian Marvallous Keene, who died by lethal injection Tuesday, July 21, for the 1992 Christmas season killings of five people here.In Western Europe, though, there hasn?t been an execution since 1977, according to Franklin Zimring in his 2003 book ?The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment.?While a public debate rages in America over whether capital punishment deters crime, there?s a debate within academic circles over why we stand alone among modern Western civilizations in continuing to execute...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 27, 2009 (boomark / email).