🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <FXARS.93Jan10172213@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu>,
 fxars@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Allen R Sparks) writes...
>The argument that it costs more to execute someone than life on parole
>is a red herring.  The cost of appeals does cost more, but that only
>strengthens the argument that the appeals process should be reformed.

Except that there are a series of constitutional issues that have not yet been
addressed in capital punishment.  Personally, I'd rather take the chance that
someone who otherwise might be executed would live than an innocent person
might die.  See the Herrera case in Texas, pending.  Affidavits from an
eyewitness who was not called to testify and a confession from the person the
witness fingered; the state argued that executing a possibly innocent person is
not cruel and unusual.

							Dan, ad nauseum