Death Penalty Myopia
We saw red when we read the USA article about those misguided professors who erroneously describe the cases of known wrongfuly convicted people and then make, what are to us, spurious arguments against the death penalty. We certainly have no intention of linking to the article. But we will link to Kevin over at Calpundit who so effectively rebuts it:
The death penalty has always been a curiosity to me. I don't really have a philosophical objection to it, but let's face it: the risk of killing innocent people is a really big practical objection. If you imprison someone and later find he's innocent, at least you can free him and make restitution. You can't do that after you've executed someone. But the real curiosity is this: why are there so many people who are passionate about keeping the death penalty? What's the emotional appeal? A life sentence without possibility of keeps murderers off the street just as effectively, but death penalty advocates are dead set against accepting this as a substitute. Even the risk of killing the occasional innocent person doesn't keep them from demanding an eye for an eye.To which we can only add: An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi
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