Why I’m Against the Death Penalty….

2006-JUN-11: AL: ABA recommends moratorium: An American Bar Association’s death penalty assessment team has recommended a moratorium on the death penalty in
Alabama. The team was headed by Daniel Filler, a University of Alabama law professor. The team of eight consists of both prosecuting and defense attorneys fromAlabama. They analyzed the state’s death penalty system for about 20 months before issuing their conclusions. They found: “…inadequate and inconsistent court-appointed representation, limited access to DNA testing, and no implementation of the US Supreme Court ruling against executing the mentally retarded.” Troy King, the Attorney General of Alabama dismissed the report. He is reported as believing that the ABA team is biased against the death penalty and thus assembled a team with that bias. He said: “The A-B-A is a liberal, activist organization with an agenda they constantly push. That’s why I’m not a member of the A-B-A.” _5,6 Project Hope has a list of concerns about the implementation of the death penalty in Alabama. _{7This is just some of the concerns that the ABA found with Alabama’s Capital Punishment System. I seriously doubt that most states have much better evidence that prove that they are better in terms of fairness and following the specific guidlines laid out by the US Supreme Court. The old eye for an eye thing sometimes backfires and we’re left being the bad guy. Thousands have been executed unfairly. We need alternatives people!!!}

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