continue to monitor letters to the editor in your area and send them to tcask … you’re bound to find articulate voices that find honed in ways to say, “the risk of executing one innocent person is simply too high,” … mr. davis, thank you lending your voice of reason to the discussion…

Sunday, 07/02/06
Letters to the Editor
End the death penalty, stop the endless appeals

To the Editor:

Tim Oliphant’s three-star letter concerning the death penalty raised some very legitimate questions, but I must take issue with his main point, being simply to use the death penalty or be done with it. (“State should use death penalty or abolish it,” June 27)

Mr. Oliphant bemoans the fact that “prisons are filled with dozens of death row inmates waiting for their day to come…How many more appeals must these inmates be allowed to have?” I say, as many appeals as are possible.

Whenever the government decides to execute a person for a crime, the only humane course is to exhaust every appeals process and use every bit of scientific and legal expertise available, especially DNA evidence, to establish unequivocally the guilt or innocence of that person. In the modern-day, enlightened society in which we live, to do anything less is to deny our heritage as a nation devoted to truth and justice.

If we truly wanted to end the problem of the many death row inmates waiting years for their appeals to end, we should abolish the death penalty altogether, which only drains our legal system, does nothing to deter crime and brands America as one of the few remaining backward democracies left on Earth.

William J. Davis
Shelbyville 37160
wjdavis@charter.net

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and the diversion of resources from our future into our past…

when we talk about the prohibitive cost of tennessee’s capital punishment system we are talking about the wasted $$$ spent in pursuit of revenge cloaked within the disguise of “justice”…

and that’s the thrust of dwight lewis‘s powerful column in thursday’s tennessean, “why are we hellbent on bloodshed by the state?” …

consider this cost observation before you check out dwight’s column … new jersey, which back in january passed a moratorium and study bill similar to the one tcask is supporting, learned from a study that the state had spent $253 million more by having its death penalty system than it would have if the maximum sentence sought had been life without parole … and new jersey has but 10 people on its death row … tennessee has over 100 people on death row today …

can you imagine how many hundreds of millions of $$$ we have diverted from crime victims’ services, crime prevention, and, as you’ll read shortly, from investing in the quality of life of our children??? – yikes!!! –

dwight lewis is a powerful voice of conscience in the wasteland of much of today’s vacuous journalism and those of us in middle tennessee owe a debt of acknowledgement to what he has brought to our community over the years on a range of social justice ruminations … so as you read his column by clicking here please remember to acknowledge the contribution of dwight lewis to the quality of our public discourse …

peace out – <3

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