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Reason
by Lucy Steigerwald

09/22/11

Why pro-death penalty rhetoric is not pro-individual rights...
http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/22/no-faith-in-government-perfect



Uncertainty and the death penalty

Rough Ol' Boy
by John Payne

09/22/11

Davis was convicted, and his appeals went through the proper channels, so according to those, such as Rick Perry, who sleep soundly in the confidence that the government has never executed an innocent man, he must be guilty. You see, our government doesn t kill innocent people. Other countries may do that sort of thing, but our justice system is above all that, so there s no need to examine the massive piles of evidence that show it regularly makes mistakes...

http://bit.ly/pvMjEF



Moral progress and arguments against the death penalty

The Moral Sciences Club
by Will Wilkinson

09/22/11

We can talk about the nature of moral progress later. It s tricky. For now, I want you to entertain the possibility that convergence toward the idea that execution is wrong counts as evidence that it is wrong. This would suggest that those American states yet to abolish the death penalty are cases of arrested development. Looking at these trends, it seems overwhelmingly probable that we will look back on the death penalty as a shameful bit of lingering of savagery. And we won t be wrong...

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40319



And justice for all?

CounterPunch
by Anuja Saunders

09/25/11

The case shines a bright light on to the workings of the American justice system. Why does this powerful, civilized, industrial nation still have a medieval definition of justice? ... And let s be clear, it is about revenge. The notion that it in any way acts as a deterrent has been debunked by one study after another...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/23/and-justice-for-all/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Troy+Davis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=justice+system
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=death+penalty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=execution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lucy+Steigerwald
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Payne
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Will+Wilkinson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Anuja+Saunders
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