So here's one to chalk up in the "good news" column: new Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf has fulfilled a campaign promise and imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in his state, calling the capital punishment system "error-prone, expensive and anything but infallible." Good on him!
<a href="http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Wolf_%28politician%29" target="_blank">He&#039;s from York, PA</a>.... &#039;Zat Pennsyltuckian enough for you all?
More people die on Death Row while waiting to be executed than are actually executed, unless you&#039;re in one of those assembly-line states like Texas or Florida.
...will do him no good politically in low-population counties but will be welcomed in Philly, Harrisburg, Scranton, Pittsburgh, and the whole eastern half of the state.
Agree, but then, the fact that innocent people get executed should not be used as an argument against the death penalty, either. It should be rejected in itself.
In reality, though, all the many arguments against the death penalty should be marshaled to end it - that it doesn&#039;t deter crime, that it is revolting, that it&#039;s expensive, that the methods are barbaric, that it fosters corruption, hat it&#039;s unconstitutional, that it is applied in racially biased ways ...
Time to stop talking about PA as a swing state and focus on the weird shit going on in the upper Midwest--MN, WI, MI are acting like they&#039;re Indiana lately.
Possibly due to the complete erasure of industrial jobs from that region.
<a href="http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Wolf_%28politician%29" target="_blank">He&#039;s from York, PA</a>.... &#039;Zat Pennsyltuckian enough for you all?
More people die on Death Row while waiting to be executed than are actually executed, unless you&#039;re in one of those assembly-line states like Texas or Florida.
...will do him no good politically in low-population counties but will be welcomed in Philly, Harrisburg, Scranton, Pittsburgh, and the whole eastern half of the state.
FIFY
Agree, but then, the fact that innocent people get executed should not be used as an argument against the death penalty, either. It should be rejected in itself.
In reality, though, all the many arguments against the death penalty should be marshaled to end it - that it doesn&#039;t deter crime, that it is revolting, that it&#039;s expensive, that the methods are barbaric, that it fosters corruption, hat it&#039;s unconstitutional, that it is applied in racially biased ways ...
Time to stop talking about PA as a swing state and focus on the weird shit going on in the upper Midwest--MN, WI, MI are acting like they&#039;re Indiana lately.
Possibly due to the complete erasure of industrial jobs from that region.