According to a recent article in the Washington Post there are three men on death row in Delaware for whom the FBI provided flawed forensic testimony. Does anybody really want to execute someone who may well be innocent?
Senate Bill 40, repeal of the death penalty, needs to be voted out of committee and allowed a full House vote. I am personally appalled that I am a citizen of one of the five countries that executes the most people. Those countries are China, Iran, North Korea, Yemen and the United States of America. The U.S. is the only G 7 country that still has the death penalty. What distinguished company we keep!
I was a prison volunteer for 20 years in the District of Columbia correctional system. Among the many inmates that I worked with, I crossed the path of three men who subsequently had their convictions overturned, two for murder, one for rape. They were pardoned and released. How do you pardon someone who has committed no crime?
Anyone who is familiar with the penal system knows that life in prison is a much worse punishment than execution, so for those of you who look for revenge, lock ’em up. It’s cheaper; it costs less to incarcerate a person for life than pay the legal costs of death penalty appeals.
Finally, for those who claim God loves capital punishment, when Jesus had the woman who had been taken in adultery brought before him to be stoned to death, He responded “Let he among you who is without sin cast the first stone.”
I rest my case.
Cynthia Armour
Milton
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