September 23, Downers Grove.
The New Yorker gets to me late but it is still a remarkable treat.
What I read in the September 7th edition today about Todd Willingham's case made me ill and shattered the little faith I had left in the ability of this country's legal system to carry out exactly that - justice.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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They say it will detour crime.
They say it's just to have a life for a life.
They say only those guilty of a crime, without a shadow of a doubt, will be punished in such a way.
...but crime is not detoured.
...but murder is murder, and the ending of one life will not bring back another.
...and sometimes those who are killed were innocent.
Capital punishment doesn't do anything of the positive, except cut the cost of supporting an inmate (and such a cost can be detoured with work programs that can serve the community and reform the inmate.)
This, is, horrifying.
Actually, it has been well documented that the death row process costs more than keeping an inmate in jail for life, due to all the legal stuff involved.
Then, capital punishment is simply murder and there is nothing, nothing at all, anyone can justifiably argue to it's being right.
I completely oppose capital punishment. I can see no good, even by trying my best, in it.
I hope that it is outlawed.
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