Who do we kill? The Supreme Court has said that the death penalty must be reserved for the worst of the worst, for those murderers who display a consciousness materially more depraved than other murderers. But thats not who were killing. Of the last 100 people executed in 2012 and 2013, nine out of every ten of them fell into one or more of the following categories: mentally impaired, mentally ill, chronically abused as children, or too young to buy beer. Read the latest edition of our newsletter, Death Penalty Discourse, where we highlight an important new study that shows just who we are killing in our death chambers. us7.campaign-archive2/?u=a3f957b1ac10923d6aaf32d94&id=27aa0f1c6e. If youre not already a subscriber to the newsletter, sign up here: sisterhelen.org/newsletter-archive/.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:48:13 +0000
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