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pecuniumIt's not that per se, I have a fundamental problem with killing people.
It's that it can't be imposed fairly, and it can't be applied impartially, and it will never be decided without error. Add that, once the condemned has been killed the state has a negative incentive to pursue new information which might point to the innocence of the dead and a travesty is bound to happen.
Ponder this case for which the 5th Circuit granted a reprieve.
Larry Swearingen is scheduled to be executed in Texas on Tuesday for a murder that four pathologists say he could not have committed. He was in jail at the time of the murder for which he was convicted
The prosecutor, of course, avers no error could possibly have been committed.
It's that it can't be imposed fairly, and it can't be applied impartially, and it will never be decided without error. Add that, once the condemned has been killed the state has a negative incentive to pursue new information which might point to the innocence of the dead and a travesty is bound to happen.
Ponder this case for which the 5th Circuit granted a reprieve.
Larry Swearingen is scheduled to be executed in Texas on Tuesday for a murder that four pathologists say he could not have committed. He was in jail at the time of the murder for which he was convicted
The prosecutor, of course, avers no error could possibly have been committed.
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Date: 2009-01-28 08:48 pm (UTC)