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More News From the 4th Congress

By Steve Hall

"Death row lets victims' families down," is the title of Jessica Reed's report in today's Guardian.Most debates about the criminal justice system and restorative justice are criticised for not focusing enough on the impact that violence has on victims and their families. Those objections multiply tenfold when the issue at hand is capital punishment: bring up the subject and many death penalty supporters will say that executions are the only way to meet survivors' needs for justice and closure, and that to oppose capital punishment is to be anti-victim. "What if it was your own son or mother?" they ask. "Wouldn't you want the perpetrator die at the hands of our justice system?"As it turns out, the truth is rather different...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 01, 2010 (boomark / email).