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Gary Edmondson's avatar

Writing right on...though when I saw the headline, I thought it was going to be about the next Trump term.

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Kevin Acers's avatar

Thank you, Arnold.

Executing prisoners isn't about being "on the side of the victims" as it is often framed. What a person "deserves" as punishment is less pertinent than the kind of society we each deserve to be a part of. Just as torturing prisoners--even guilty ones who arguably "deserve it" for what they did--crosses the line into barbarity, so it is with putting prisoners to death. Fundamental human rights.

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