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I am in agreement

I am in agreement with the general article and with Gil about the horror of applying the death penalty to an innocent person.

One other reason I would put forth for avoiding the use of the death penalty is that it requires someone else (not someone who is a murderer) to do the killing. It seems like there would be some increased risk that the innocent killer would come to have less regard for human life and also might be more prone to having some emotional or psychological problems.

I suppose one way to avoid this would be to have only death row inmates doing the actual killing. Perhaps by allowing one of the inmates to stay at the 'end' of the row, so to speak, so long as they were willing to perform the deed? That seems pretty twisted... nevermind.

Becky

by Becky Moon on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 17:07

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