death penalty continues

i’m disappointed that the supreme court recently ruled to allow death penalty cases to continue, but i guess the justices collectively do not agree with me that it is hypocritical for the state to kill citizens in the name of justice. one aspect of the finding though that was quite interesting is to read of justice stevens reversal over the last thirty years on his position and what he wrote about it. though he voted to allow the death penalty to continue because of legal precedent in his statements he came out vehemently opposed to the death penalty. that was a reversal of his early judgements in the 1970’s.

”State-sanctioned killing,“ justice stevens said, was ”becoming more and more anachronistic“. He added that the death penalty was, ”the product of habit and inattention rather than an acceptable deliberative process“.

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