Another Unnecessary Death
Posted By Ardellis on December 13, 2005
I know very little about Stanley “Tookie” Williams, the murders he was convicted of, or the legal grounds that his lawyers were using as clemency grounds. It doesn’t matter that he was a gang founder, or that he wrote books for kids, or that he was nominated for the Peace Prize five times.
None of this is relevant to my argument that Williams’ death sentence should have been commuted, because I am categorically against the death penalty.
If it is wrong to take a human life, then the state shouldn’t have the right to do it, either.
It is mind-boggling to me that the United States is the only “first world” country that still clings to this unconscionable practice.
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