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Death penalty foes won't take a stand in Colorado

ericynot Wrote: Jul 27, 2012 3:55 PM

Jhow, The state derives its authority to kill from the same place it does to regulate pharmaceuticals. We have a legal framework within which such things are allowed (I don't argue that the dp is illegal, just ill-advised), and we have a citizenry that wishes those things done. But some of the things the state does, though legal, are ill-advised. I believe the death penalty falls into that category. I'm not a bleeding heart -- there are a lot of guys on death row I'd be happy to execute personally. But this is not about "feeling good". For me, it's about what works and what doesn't. And, if anything, I believe the death penalty, paradoxically, brings on more of what it is we seek to prevent.

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Death penalty foes won't take a stand in Colorado

In the aftermath of the Aurora, Colo., slaughter, the question went forth on all of the political chatter shows: "Will this reopen the debate over gun control?"

That's the script. When heinous monsters kill people with guns, we tend to talk about the problem of guns. Or rather, people in Washington, New York and other big cities tend to talk about the problem of guns, because they think guns are the problem. There's an irony there, of course, given that such cities tend to have the worst gun-related murder rates -- Chicago these days has the equivalent of an...

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