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Life Without Parole Is Worse Than Execution

By Steve Hall

That's the title of a Dwight Lewis column in the Tennessean.  Lewis is also a member of the paper's editorial board.  LINKThey say good newspaper columns should read like you're listening to some good music. But how do you write such a column when the state has just taken a man's life?And more importantly, how do you write such a column when you've spoken out over the years against the death penalty, raising such questions as what does it prove for the state to take someone's life?With Wednesday morning's execution of 53-year-old Cecil Johnson Jr. by lethal injection, Tennessee has now executed six condemned convicts since 2000. Before that, no one had been executed in the state since William Tines was put to death in the electric chair in 1961...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 04, 2009 (boomark / email).