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Baltimore Sun columnist Dan Rodricks must-read latest is, "Death penalty fails on fairness."Some death penalty opponents believe they must win the argument on moral grounds - that they have to convince the Maryland General Assembly, for instance, that capital punishment should be abolished because it's just morally wrong. For many Americans, it's the only argument necessary and the only one they offer, and they do so with the stridency approaching that of religious belief. While I appreciate the poetry of the moralizing abolitionists, and admit to having been in their ranks at one time, I realize that the moral argument doesn't work with everyone. Citizens of a society ruled by law - even one that has sent 124 innocent defendants to Death Row during the past 30 years, according to a count kept by the American Civil Liberties Union - need more than that...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 24, 2008 (boomark / email).