Look, Ray Towler wasn't on death row in Ohio, but do we need further evidence of why capital punishment is such a bad idea? Until recent decades in Georgia and throughout the south, ( at least, until Corker v. Ga. in 1977), criminal defendants were executed for rape. Want to guess how many innocent men, particularly black men went to their deaths at the hands of a vengeful society intent on stamping out the crime of rape?
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I worked on the Mississippi Innocence Project. I once thought capital punishment was a fine idea, then changed my mind when I saw how the system really works. Now I would rather lose a job than have anything to do with it.
ReplyDeleteIt's barbaric, there's no valid penological reason for it, it's expensive, and innocent people have and will face execution. How a "Christian" society tolerates it is beyond me.
If you haven't seen the New Yorker article on Cameron Todd Willingham, check it out. Made my blood boil.