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“Even if the state could perform painless and anxiety-free executions and racial biases were eliminated, the death penalty would still be wrong…. Americans who favor capital punishment generally want it to be imposed, if at all, without factual error, pain, politics, prosecutorial overreach or racial bias. But that’s just fantasy. The death penalty is inextricably bound up with each of those ills, and more.” Research on the death penalty has proven that cases across the nation have routinely been infected by racial bias, constitutional violations, official misconduct, or political influence. Just last month, a federal judge ordered Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price to review 35 previous cases after her office found evidence that past prosecutors systematically excluded Black and Jewish people from juries hearing capital conviction cases. In this editorial, the Los Angeles Times Editorial Board explains how the death penalty is irreparably tainted, morally unjust, and why it must be ended. (Alameda County District Attorney's Office) https://lnkd.in/eiy4fY_Z 

Editorial: Of course the death penalty is racist. And it would be wrong even if it weren't

Editorial: Of course the death penalty is racist. And it would be wrong even if it weren't

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Reydel Santos

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Makes no sense to me! What makes more sense is Matthew 22:36-40 - English Standard Version 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

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