This morning, the Dallas Morning News editorially renounced its 100 years of support for the death penalty. This is inspirational.
Impressive also is the reasoning behind the decision, that the State of Texas has shown it is not capable of reaching a judgment that can be trusted. The tagline of the article reads: "We cannot support a system that is both imperfect and irreversible."
The instances of crimes that resulted in incorrect arrests and convictions which I brought up yesterday in "If Dallas Can Come to Justice, Maybe the U.S. Will Be Next" have given impetus to the reversal of the News' long-held stance.
As mentioned in that post here yesterday, the death penalty cannot be in any way justified in a system that commits such crimes against the innocent. False imprisonment takes away lives as it is, and again I give my thanks to Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins.
This moral improvement should be really inspirational to those who worked to elect the Democrats that November 7th's election put into power in Dallas' justice system. One of those is Tena at First Draft. Congratulations to you all.
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That is inspirational
The GW's home state would repudiate the death penalty, in which GW appears to have so much faith, is indeed remarkable.
If such a change of heart would only happen everywhere. Like in Oklahoma.
Jake
that's great news, ruth
thanks for the inspirational catch. hope springs eternal, even in the hellhole of the texan "justice" system.
Thanks, Ruth. That news
Thanks, Ruth. That news makes me feel better about living in Dallas than I've felt in a long time.