Andrew V. Kennedy, the author of this piece.
Posted on 09/30/2024 5:05:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
On September 24, the state of Missouri executed a potentially innocent man. Marcellus Williams was convicted in 2001 for the crime of murder. Yet over time, with the help of the Innocence Project, doubts had arisen about his guilt and the legitimacy of the legal process used against him. In any case, the merest shred of doubt should have been enough to spare Williams' life.
Yet the truth of the matter is that Williams' life should have never been on the line in the first place.
The death penalty in America is a policy past its sell date; it's time for it to end. It does not solve or prevent crime, or bind up the emotional wounds of victims or families. It is punishment for punishment's sake; a kind of performative vengeance.
Advocates for the death penalty say it represents justice. But in reality they are simply describing the feelings human beings have when they see pain inflicted on someone they believe deserves it. Hundreds of years ago public torture and executions elicited these same feelings.
Most Americans today would deem public spectacles in which individuals are hanged, drawn, and quartered to be immoral or barbaric. Yet for some reason many draw a moral distinction between the modern method of death by lethal injection, and methods of the past.
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How about we reserve the death penalty for crooked politicians? We would either have honest representatives, or more clever thieves.
What about hate crimes?
Don’t hate crimes, like posting memes that ridicule Democrat politicians, deserve the death penalty?
>> It does not solve or prevent crime
It’s not supposed to — it’s simply justice that shouldn’t be delayed.
I agree. Let’s start with innocent babies in the womb first and go from there.
I’ve never heard anything so islamophobic. Islam and Sharia demands death for so many things. This throws the woke off their game.
Abolish Newsweek, et al. They’re unjust and outdated . . .
Hmmm/
Is murder outdated?
I’m pretty sure I read about murder every week.
I’m pretty sure child rape is in the news regularly.
Nope, I think that the death penalty is still relevant and needed.
Mend it, don’t end it!
The Death Penalty is Just and Always in Style!
I agree.
There are no doubts about his guilt. He was literally caught red-shirted. There were just procedural inconsistencies.
>> It does not solve or prevent crime
The recidivism rate of the executed is rather low.
Im for executing child molesters,elder abusers and anyone who even attempts to assassinate the president of the US.
He wasn’t innocent. They want to gloss over the facts.
NO! Expand the death penalty!
You think the person who wakes Biden up during a staff meeting should be executed?
Misinformation.
No..since biden is likely a child molester.
Andrew V. Kennedy, the author of this piece.
Last night’s rerun of original Law and Order had them shopping for a death penalty venue such as showing a continuing criminal enterprise leading to murder which would allow the eager feds to take it from the State of New York.
“We had a good death penalty in this state but a court ruled against the voters’ wishes and set it aside.” Another way was showing terrorism was involved.
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