19 June 2004

Saturday's lead editorial at washingtonpost.com

contains this passage, which most accurately reflects my personal opinion on the death penalty.

"Steven Oken's Death" (washingtonpost.com) For the death penalty is not merely an irreversible penalty, unevenly applied and fraught with grave danger of error. It involves the state in the premeditated killing of an individual long since prevented from doing further harm to society. Even when that individual's guilt is clear, that killing is still wrong -- and the power to carry it out is more power than any state should have.
The whole article can be found here.

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