Post by Anja Nieser on Oct 1, 2006 5:48:21 GMT -5
A barbaric decision
How can we call ourselves a civilized society when we have succumbed to
the Mosaic law of an eye for an eye?
The decision of the federal government to seek the death penalty in the
Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. case brings us back in line with those whose values
we profess to so abhor.
No civilized society kills their own. Moreover, our system is biased when
only those who could return a verdict of death are be included in the jury
asked to render such a verdict.
As a former federal prosecutor, I reject everything the United States
government has brought upon our society by pursuing the death penalty,
particularly in a state which otherwise does not have a death penalty.
LIZABETH MCKIBBEN, WAYZATA
(source: Minneapolis Star Tribune)
How can we call ourselves a civilized society when we have succumbed to
the Mosaic law of an eye for an eye?
The decision of the federal government to seek the death penalty in the
Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. case brings us back in line with those whose values
we profess to so abhor.
No civilized society kills their own. Moreover, our system is biased when
only those who could return a verdict of death are be included in the jury
asked to render such a verdict.
As a former federal prosecutor, I reject everything the United States
government has brought upon our society by pursuing the death penalty,
particularly in a state which otherwise does not have a death penalty.
LIZABETH MCKIBBEN, WAYZATA
(source: Minneapolis Star Tribune)