A former executioner has become a leading advocate for ending the death penalty

New DNA evidence keeps finding people on death row who didn't do the crime they were convicted of. If that doesn't give us pause, I don't know what will. It brings into my mind the question of how many people we executed who are innocent of the crimes we executed them for. Combine that with the ineffectiveness of executions as a deterrent and the cost and I see it as extremely bad public policy.

We'd also have a lot more room in prison for them if we were not so gung ho on locking everyone up. You want to talk about wasted tax dollars? First we pay to lock them up, then because they likely can't get a good job we will pay to support them and do additional prison terms for the rest of their lives. Locking lots of people up is the gift that keeps giving, outside of just filling up the prisons.

The death penalty serves two purposes only. It certainly doesn't deter or prevent crime. I doubt any criminal ever did a rational cost-benefit analysis to determine if the crime was worth the risk of the DP. No. The only people who support the DP, I think, are those who believe that a revenge killing restores order to their world, and the politicians who know that supporting the DP is good for votes down south. Funny how pro-life people are often pro-DP.

Really !!!??? ... there are Just some folks out that need to be terminated...