[Alberta's Child]

I quit believing in capital punishment when I became convinced that the state is not trustworthy to use this power responsibly.

This is a very compelling point Dreher makes, and I have a hard time arguing with it.

I realize justice is imperfect and does need to be rendered as best we can, but there's also a side of me that wonders if our society has the moral authority to carry it out in its strongest terms. Objectively speaking, a justice system that can produce an OJ jury, a Clinton presidency or the legal idiocy surrounding the prosecution of U.S. military personnel in Iraq has no business even putting people in jail, let alone executing them.

[TASMANIANRED]

They wouldn’t have gotten a conviction to be in question.