It doesn’t act as a deterrent to crime, it costs more than simply putting a criminal in jail for life without parole, it overwhelmingly targets poor defendants and occasionally, an innocent person is murdered by the state. We’ve known for years that there is not a single positive aspect that makes the death penalty a good policy decision. Because, as I’m sure you already know, the life of a teacher or a store clerk isn’t as important as the life of a cop.
Pete Schwartzkopf, who essentially controls the fate of the bill, has signaled the only way he would support the repeal of the death penalty is if it were amended to exclude the killers of police and correctional officers. It appealed to me as the highest that I can vision.WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsorĪs usual, Peterson and her allies are up against hard opposition from politicians who, despite all the evidence of the death penalty as a cruel and failed policy, are simply afraid of seeming weak on crime. I was reading last night of the aspiration of the old Persian poet, Omar Khayyám. I have done something to help human understanding, to temper justice with mercy, to overcome hate with love. If I should succeed, my greatest reward and my greatest hope will be that. I am sure I do not need to tell this court, or to tell my friends that I would fight just as hard for the poor as for the rich. When we can learn by reason and judgment and understanding that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man. I am pleading for the future I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. But in doing it you will turn your face toward the past. You may hang these boys you may hang them by the neck until they are dead. Your Honor stands between the past and the future. I am pleading that we overcome cruelty with kindness and hatred with love. I am pleading for life, understanding, charity, kindness, and the infinite mercy that considers all. I know the future is with me, and what I stand for here not merely for the lives of these two unfortunate lads, but for all boys and all girls for all of the young, and as far as possible, for all of the old.
It is a hard thing for a father to see his life’s hopes crumble into dust.
He watched him, he cared for him, he worked for him the boy was brilliant and accomplished, he educated him, and he thought that fame and position awaited him, as it should have awaited. Here it Leopold’s father - and this boy was the pride of his life. And I think here of the stanza of Housman: But what have they to look forward to? Nothing. I would be the last person on earth to close the door of hope to any human being that lives, and least of all to my clients. “I would not tell this court that I do not hope that some time, when life and age have changed their bodies, as they do, and have changed their emotions, as they do - that they may once more return to life.
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