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Is an Eye for an Eye Justified?

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in Kansas' Pittsburg Morning Sun.  LINK  It's written for the paper by Matthew Clark.Is an eye for an eye justified when the state is concerned?On Tuesday, the Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee began three days of testimony regarding the state?s death penalty. Opponents told the committee that the law is costly, flawed and should be repealed. Two law professors and the bishop of the Wichita Roman Catholic diocese said that ?the state should use alternative forms of punishment that ensured justice.?And:We agree that ending another person?s life should never be done without apprehension. However, a society that cares more about the rights of those that do evil over those that are innocent and should live life without fear has lost its moral compass...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 20, 2010 (boomark / email).