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More Illinois Editorials Urge Repeal

By Steve Hall

Today's Chicago Sun-Times carries the editorial, "Illinois should end the death penalty." If a state insists on a death penalty, it does so with this knowledge: At some time and at some place, an innocent person will be executed. No system is perfect, no system is free of mistakes. And that, above all other reasons, is why a state-sanctioned death penalty is unwise. A government cannot possibly impose capital punishment in a way that ensures it is on the right side of justice in every single instance. The very idea of strapping someone to a gurney and injecting him with lethal drugs for a crime he did not commit should be sickening in a just society. Last week, in a brave and stunning vote, the Illinois House of Representatives voted to abolish the death penalty in Illinois, 11 years after former Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 10, 2011 (boomark / email).