Your position on the death penalty

[visioncat]

The death penalty is nothing less than evil.

- it is no deterrant
- innocent people get executed *
- the death penalty discriminates against the poor
- the death penalty is racist
- it is applied arbitrarily
- it costs taxpayers more than LWOP
- it is often politically motivated
- it is a human rights abuse to execute the mentally ill, the and children, both of which the US does
- LWOP is a real solution

But above all, executing people creates a new set of victims - the families and loved ones of the executed, who have committed no crimes of their own. Where's the sense in that?

* Last night, I went to a talk with Ryan Matthews who was exonerated on DNA evidence from LA Death Row a few months back. He is unambiguously innocent. He lost seven years of his life, nearly lost his life to the state that was determined to kill him. How many Ryan Matthews have been killed already?

The USA is a human rights abuser on this issue and must sort this out before they question other countries human rights record.

Rant over... sorry!

[visioncat]

Once more thing...

I'd like to know how supporters of capital punishment can tolerate the Supreme Court ruling that states: 'innocence is not a bar to execution as long as due process has been followed' (Hererra v Collins)

I'd love to know how this can be squared with the desire for the state to kill many and quickly.