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Capital Punishment and Todd Willingham

By Steve Hall

"Pro-death: America a misfit," is the title of an editorial from the Charleston Gazette of West Virginia.Almost every modern democracy has abolished the death penalty, on grounds that it's a cruel relic from the brutal past. West Virginia likewise took this humane step - but support for executions remains strong in some parts of America.Texas is the national leader in governmental killings. When George W. Bush was governor, he set grisly records for putting prisoners to death, and mocked one woman before her execution.But the death penalty is a long, expensive, ugly business. The 13-year tale of one Texas execution is retold in the Sept. 7 New Yorker, as follows:In 1991, in the low-income town of Corsicana northeast of Waco, fire swept a modest wooden home...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 17, 2009 (boomark / email).