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Jun 23, 2016 · We remind colleagues that the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which the United States is a party, provides for imposition of the death penalty for the most serious crimes when carried out pursuant to a final judgment rendered by a competent court, and accompanied by appropriate procedural safeguards and the observance of...
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“Can we expect a decent society if the state is allowed to kill its own people?” — Coretta Scott King “The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is: ‘Do we deserve to kill?’” — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption “Capita...
“The State is not God. It has no right to take away that which it cannot give back, if it should so desire.” — Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, The Bet “Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police brutality, solitary confinement, and the discriminatory and arbitrary impos...
“True justice is restorative. It heals wounds. The death penalty only creates new wounds.” — Shane Claiborne, in a tweet “I can’t accept the judgment that killers need to be killed, a practice that merely perpetuates the cycle of violence.” — Bernice King “The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of...
“I learned the most important lesson of my life… I didn’t have to see somebody else die in order to bring healing.” — Bill Pelke, who lost his grandmother to murder by a group of teenagers “When Jeffrey was murdered, I wanted the men who killed him dead. I led the fight to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts in 1997. But time passes, and y...
“But secondly you say ‘society must exact vengeance, and society must punish’. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.” ― Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man “The state should not be killing people. Not through militarism. Not by police. Not because of ICE. Not by medical negligence. And not by de...
On May 11, the State of Missouri executed Earl Forrest for the murder of Harriet Smith, Michael Wells, and JoAnn Barnes in 2002. The United States recognizes the debate on the death penalty both within and among nations.
“The death penalty is a necessary tool to protect innocent lives.” – George W. Bush. “I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don’t think it’s human to become an angel of death.” – Sister Helen Prejean.
- Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Martin Luther King, Jr. Kings, Stars, Hate.
- Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life. Coretta Scott King. Justice, Death Penalty, Human Life.
- Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
- Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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