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"When Governments Kill: A conservative argues for abolishing the death penalty"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the heading for this notable commentary by renown conservative Richard Viguerie, which appears in the July 2009 issue of Sojourners Magazine.  Here are snippets (with emphasis in the original): The fact is, I don?t understand why more conservatives don?t oppose the death penalty. It is, after all, a system set up under laws established by politicians (too many of whom lack principles); enforced by prosecutors (many of whom want to become politicians ? perhaps a character flaw? ? and who prefer wins over justice); and adjudicated by judges (too many of whom administer personal preference rather than the law). Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which we conservatives know are rife with injustice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 05, 2009 (boomark / email).