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In North Carolina, the Charlotte Observer carries an OpEd today, "Reassess the death penalty."  It's written by Cynthia Adcock a law prof at Charlotte School of Law.There are things we now know about the death penalty that give most Americans pause -- its disproportionate application to blacks who kill whites, the lengthy appeal process that continually reopens painful wounds for families on both sides of the courtroom, its high cost in comparison to the other "death sentence" of life without the possibility of parole, and the inherent problems of a system dependent on human decision-making that puts innocents on death row. The last point is no mere theoretical concern. Remember Glen Chapman, who walked off North Carolina's own death row just a few weeks ago? When will we do a thorough cost-benefit analysis -- both human and monetary -- of having the death penalty in North Carolina? Now is the time to clear the weeds and have an honest discussion about its appropriateness...continue to full post

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