Just a couple of links from this past week that discuss how the death penalty is being used less frequently in the US and how one law professor believes that the death penalty is coming to an end:
http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/us-death-sentences-and-executions-are-decreasing
http://news.blogs.wlu.edu/2011/12/18/decrease-in-u-s-executions-points-to-eventual-abolishment-says-wl-law-professor/
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, it just seems like a bad policy to go around lawfully taking people's lives when evidence has repeatedly shown that we incarcerate and execute innocent citizens.
http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/us-death-sentences-and-executions-are-decreasing
http://news.blogs.wlu.edu/2011/12/18/decrease-in-u-s-executions-points-to-eventual-abolishment-says-wl-law-professor/
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, it just seems like a bad policy to go around lawfully taking people's lives when evidence has repeatedly shown that we incarcerate and execute innocent citizens.
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