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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2008-01-03

Bill Moyers: "But there is the question of a crime and of justice as some people see it. "

Thomas Cahill: "The crime is secondary. There are no millionaires on death row nor will there ever be. Almost everyone on death row is poor. And do you really think that no millionaire ever committed a capital crime? "

Bill Moyers: "So what are you saying? "

Thomas Cahill: "I'm saying that there are certain people in our society that we are willing to offer up. And not others. And they're the people who have no power. We're not killing Dominique Green because he committed murder. We're killing Dominique Green because we want to kill somebody."

-- from the the PBS television program Bill Moyers Journal, aired 2007-11-09

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posted by [identity profile] keith-m043.livejournal.com at 03:40pm on 2008-01-03
The thing I see about the death penalty is that the same political pressure that causes certain crimes to have the death penalty attached to them also create enourmous pressure for the police to find *somebody* to prosecute for these crimes when they are commited. The only serious studythat I'm aware of , of how often the justice system gets it wrong, is Illinois which was about half the time.

From a political standpoint it's up to the individual to decide whether it's worth it to have a certain number of innocent people be put to death each year to maintain an "air of deterrence" for a given set of crimes.
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