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Friday, February 23, 2007
Ind. Law - Still more on the ABA's proposed death penalty moratorium
From an editorial today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. It concludes:
A handful of states – including Illinois, New York and New Jersey – have suspended capital punishment over the fairness issue. Other states have suspended executions because of concerns about their lethal injection procedures.For earlier entries, type "moratorium" in the right-column search box.In Indiana, 24 inmates await execution.
A moratorium would not prevent a judge from sentencing someone convicted of a crime to death but would defer the execution until the state rectifies the system’s deficiencies.
The governor has been silent on the moratorium recommendation, declining to comment on the bar association report, but silence is not an adequate response.
Someday, Indiana citizens may decide to join millions of others around the world in abolishing the death penalty altogether. In the meantime, if the state is going to execute people in the name of its citizens, at the very least, the system should be fair.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 23, 2007 08:41 AM
Posted to Indiana Law