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Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens talks sense on the death penalty.
Stevens stopped short of calling for an end to the death penalty, but he said there are many problems in the way it is used.I agree completely. Once upon a time, in my stupid youth, I was a strong advocate of the death penalty.Recent exonerations of death row inmates through scientific evidence are significant, he told the American Bar Association (search), "not only because of its relevance to the debate about the wisdom of continuing to administer capital punishment but also because it indicates that there must be serious flaws in our administration of criminal justice."
I got better. It's funny how opening your eyes and seeing the world for how it really works will do that (it's also a good remedy for creationism and Intelligent Design, but that's another argument and one I'm not going to start here even though I just poked all of you with a stick, but it's my blog and I can do that - muwahahahaha).
Sure, there are some crimes that warrant a forfeiture of the offender's life. I just don't think our justice system, maybe no justice system at that, is capable of distributing the ultimate punishment with anything approaching equity or certainty of guilt.
