Fri
Feb 9 2007
09:21 pm
Tennessee death penalty
By: R. Neal

[W]hy not just pull a very sharp knife across the inmate's neck?

Good question. It works for the third-world cesspools we apparently aspire to become. And it would certainly be more cost effective. A little messier perhaps, but "normal" citizens don't have to see it or clean it up. We just have to go along.

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"How Could We Let This Happen?"

Submitted by kbarry on Sat, 2007/02/10 - 5:32pm.

Over the past 15 years the death penalty has repeatedly been proven to be:

- not a deterrent
- wrongly applied to innocent people
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17075302/?GT1=9033
- systematically preying on the poor and mentally ill
- selectively applied by the prosecutions
- more costly than keeping someone in jail for life.
- consuming district attorney resources to a degree that other crimes are not prosecuted.
- not the "closure for victims" families which it claims to be.

I think in less than a generation we'll look back at this period of American history and ask yourselves, "How could we sit by and let this happen?"

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