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Dallas Morning News columnist Jacquielynn Floyd's latest is, "Death-row inmates don't need pity, fame." Fresh examination of those 10-year-old details lends emotional urgency to the argument in favor of capital punishment: How can lethal injection be too "cruel" for a person who partied down in the house where his dead parents were festering in the garage? Yet the clamor for more executions reinforces the argument that capital punishment is more about retribution than about justice, more about settling scores than public safety. Now the state has the option to set a new execution date for Mr. Turner, and it probably won't waste much time doing just that. If so, I won't lose much sleep. But as I grow older and less certain that I'm right about everything, I find it not especially troubling that Carlton Turner is still drawing breath...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 25, 2008 (boomark / email).