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Death Be Not?

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That's the title of an editorial in Virginia's Richmond Times-Dispatch.  LINK Del. Frank Hargrove, one of the General Assembly's Don Quixotes, hopes the umpteenth time will be the charm. He wants to end executions in Virginia, which stands second only to Texas in its zest for capital punishment. Although there is some slight evidence that capital punishment might deter crime, its overall effect on crime trends is vanishingly small -- and it achieves no legitimate goals that cannot be achieved by a life sentence with no possibility of parole. (Spare us the nonsense about how execution protects fellow inmates and guards from psychopaths. A place like the supermax Pelican Bay prison is the place for them.) Many arguments against capital punishment are flawed, but that does not make a case for execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 23, 2008 (boomark / email).

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