No More

Last week, the state of GA killed a man most people believe to be innocent. It has become abundantly clear that our death penalty system doesn’t work. It hasn’t for a long time. We made it legal to kill innocent people about 18 years ago courtesy of Herrera v. Collins. Regardless, we aren’t going to be able to stop the insanity that is the death penalty until we agree that not only is it not ok to kill innocent people. It’s not ok to kill the guilty either. And yes, this does require us to extend our compassion to people who have committed heinous crimes. Until we are willing to be compassionate with everyone, including murderers, our bloodlust will continue to kill the innocent along with the guilty. I don’t know about you, but my heart simply can’t take much more of this brutality. I support the National Coalition to Abolition the Death Penalty - I hope you will too. http://www.ncadp.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrera_v._Collins