Death Penalty
It is Death Penalty Awareness Week, and supporters of human rights across the country have turned their attention to a uniquely complicated injustice -- the implementation of capital punishment in the United States.
In November, 1,150 cities around the world—including 60 capitals—lit up public buildings to support an end to the death penalty.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
--William Butler Yeats, from "The Second Coming"
I applaud the commentary “When Governments Kill” (by Richard Viguerie, July 2009), as an American who used to support the death penalty.
In October, the families of crime victims and the families of perpetrators came together for a common cause: Abolish the death penalty in Montana.