Mar 012005
Just as the national consensus on abortion seems to be evolving, so too do our views on capital punishment. With today’s ruling that a person cannot be executed for crimes committed as a minor, we have taken another step towards the ultimate realization that capital punishment simply isn’t working as a deterrent or as an act of justice. Proponents of the death penalty will predictably accuse the Court of being soft on crime, but they can’t ignore the fact that they are slowly losing the argument on this issue.
