December 12, 2007
Death machine: Running on fumes?
More news this week that casts doubt about the long-term viability of the America's love affair with executions (the one it shares with China, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and a few other top flight regimes).
In New Jersey, state lawmakers have voted to officially repeal capital punishment this week — the first legislature to take such action since 1976. Governor Corzine is expected to sign the bill.
"Today New Jersey can become a leader, an inspiration to other states," Senator Robert Martin, a Republican from Morris Plains who voted for the bill, said during Monday's debate.
Meanwhile, back home in the Old North State, yet another man, Jonathon Hoffman, has been cleared of a 1995 murder — one for which he was convicted, sentenced to death, and spent seven years on death row.
Could it be that we here will soon wake up to the realization that long ago dawned on most of the civilzed world — namely that there are few things more horrific to contemplate than the state-sponsored execution of an innocent human being and that it's time to permanently prevent the possibility of such an occurrence?
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