The Death Penalty
I (J) am currently working on a capital murder appeal for a man incarcerated on Alabama’s death row. My client is a young, black man who has a history of mental illness and brutal, sadistic child abuse. I came into this case through the Innocence Project. The Innocence Project, along with private lawyers, are doing great work to free wrongly convicted people throughout the United States, especially in the terrible StateOf Alabama. I will visit Alabama’s death row next week, and I will post my thoughts to the extent that I am not violating attorney-client rules.
Why is America willing to maintain order–no matter what the costs?
I have come to loathe the death penalty. Though my views on the death penalty shifted over the years, I’ve been firmly against it for the last 4 years or so. There are three primary reasons why I’m opposed to the death penaly. First, I don’t think governments have (or should have) the power to take lives. Second, African Americans are disproportionately represented on America’s death rows. Third, the mentally ill and/or retarded comprise a large portion of death row residents, and that’s just cruel.
TheStateOf . . . The Death Penalty. Where do you stand on the death penalty?
