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A Voice From The Tennessean

By Steve Hall

Dwight Lewis is the editorial page editor and a columnist at the Tennessean.  Today's column is, "End death penalty; it is costly, ineffective." How far should a state go to put a condemned prisoner to death? I raise that question today after learning that Tennessee Attorney General Robert Cooper joined 12 other state attorneys general late last month to ask U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to help their states be able to perform executions. Instead of asking Holder for such help, why don't these states just do away with the death penalty and sentence people who commit heinous crimes such as murder to life in prison without the possibility of parole? In other words, treat them humanely, but throw away the key if we are absolutely sure we have the person who committed the crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 10, 2011 (boomark / email).