The Pilgrim has long opposed the death penalty on moral grounds.
Here's a good article that provides a 'process oriented' reason to oppose the death penalty.
It is simply too easy to get it wrong, even in a justice system with as many safeguards as ours has.
The notion of wrongly executed people is simply too much burden for a moral nation to carry.
GP
Friday, January 19, 2007
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Just curious: You were kidding with your remarks over at Jon Swift's Blog, right?
You wouldn't be the first that missed the joke. :)
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