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Commentary From California

By Steve Hall

"Waiting for a death-penalty debate," is the title of an editorial in today's Los Angeles Times. We had hoped that Fogel's stay would start a dialogue in California about the death penalty, which is objectionable for a host of reasons, and not just because the three-drug death cocktail may not ease the pain of the condemned. We'd hoped Californians would be shaken by the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas in 2004 following a conviction based on shoddy forensics evidence, or of the 17 death-row inmates in other states who were exonerated by DNA testing. We'd hoped they would notice that capital punishment has no deterrent effect on violent crime, or that the cost of carrying it out is helping to bankrupt the state, or that most developed nations have abandoned it because of its essential inhumanity...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 28, 2010 (boomark / email).