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Wednesday, January 15, 2003
posted by gbarto at 2:48 AM:
The Great and Good Gregory Hlatky of A Dog's Life weighs in on the death penalty. And makes its points better than I. Says he, the death penalty should be eliminated:My views are as follows. I dislike the death penalty and wish that states and the Federal government would do away with it. My reason is that it is no longer needed to maintain the safety of the public. A criminal, once caught, can be quarantined and incarcerated for life (and I mean life) and no longer threaten the lives of any citizen...But that's for the states and the people to decide, not Governor Ryan:
What irritates me about Governor Ryan’s action is that it comes close to an abuse of his pardoning power [which is] not subject to any check or balance by another branch of government...Follow the link and read the whole thing.
... In calling the death penalty “arbitrary and capricious,” Governor Ryan acted in no less an arbitrary and capricious manner in emptying Death Row, with results just as final.
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