AN EYE FOR AN EYE, Pt.3…5/14/08
by SteveAnd if the above, by itself were not enough, let me share with you a few other reasons to be against capital punishment.
First, the death penalty does nothing to break the cycle of violence in our country. While it does prevent a convicted murderer from committing other crimes, it does not stop others from doing so. Over two-thirds of the police chiefs in America believe that the death penalty has no deterrent value. Studies have shown that rather than acting as a deterrent, executions simply reinforce the idea of a brutal society where vengeance is an acceptable form of behavior. In addition to all that, FBI statistics prove that states which enforce the death penalty continue to see murder rates rise. The death penalty is not a deterrent, because potential killers don’t weigh cost versus benefit. They are impulsive, and they kill impulsively.
Second, innocent people will be executed. Our criminal justice system, fine as it is, is not perfect, and once society kills an innocent person, there is no way to fix that. A few years ago, the governor of Illinois courageously imposed a moratorium on the death penalty after 13 death row inmates had their guilty sentences overturned. In the past 20 years, over 65 people have been released from death row because of significant evidence of their innocence. Two thirds of all death penalty appeals from 1973 to 1995 were successful. It’s not one case, it’s thousands of cases. And it’s not one state, it’s almost every state. The capital punishment system is collapsing under the weight of its own mistakes.
Death is final. There is no possible remedy for the injustice of executing someone who is not guilty.
Third, the death penalty is administered unfairly. The bishops of the our church recognized 20 years ago that “those condemned to die are nearly always poor, and disproportionately black.” The same is true today. In February of 2000, the American Bar Association called for a moratorium on the death penalty because “the administration of the death penalty, far from being fair and consistent, is instead a haphazard maze of unfair practices with no internal consistency.”
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Fred, I iainmge if you took an opinion poll in China most Chinese approve of oppressing the Tibetans just fine.
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Once upon a time, I turned pages for Jamie when he performed the Kreutzer Sonata at a studio class. This was before I played it myself, so I was unfamiliar with the theme & variations movement. There’s one particular variation which is 2 straight pages of 16th notes, and 2 repeats. I made the mistake of glancing away from the page for a second, and discovered to my horror when I looked back that I couldn’t remember a) where we were, and b) whether we had done the repeats. I ended up half-standing & hovering for what seemed like an eternity, with Jamie kindly giving me subtle no shakes and finally a clear yes nod.Then there was the time that I turned for a friend playing in a vocal recital @ Scotiafest. He asked me at the last minute as a favour, so I accepted, forgetting that I was battling the remnants of a nasty cough. There’s nothing like being on stage and NOT BEING ALLOWED TO COUGH that will make you want to cough up a lung. I managed to get through the entire thing without once coughing during a piece, but then had a friend in the audience comment on the odd expression on my face at various times.
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