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No Such Thing as 'Humane' Executions

By Steve Hall

That's the title of today's Des Moines Register editorial. Numerous reasons exist for opposing the death penalty. It's wrong for the government to reduce itself to the level of criminals. Executions don't deter crime. Life in prison is a more painful punishment for the most heinous crimes. State-sanctioned murder brings additional and prolonged attention to slimeballs.Some who support the death penalty cite "an eye for an eye" as justification for killing killers. But the state cannot impose the kind of suffering on a criminal that he or she imposed on a victim. American authorities don't rape rapists or steal from thieves. In fact, when the government does execute criminals, it goes out of its way to make death comfortable...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 07, 2010 (boomark / email).