A complete concept of justice should more fully consider and understand the suffering of all those affected by crime. Justice should not be narrow, but expansive. It should consider all the contributing factors and consequences of crime and violence. It should go beyond simple reactionary instincts to punish, but instead focus on shared humanity and shared suffering. Justice should never be satisfied with incomplete narratives about crime that lead to harsh punishment, but should instead always strive toward fairness, equality and inclusion.
It’s time to shut down the state’s immoral, barbaric and broken system of capital punishment.
End the Death Penalty in California- vote yes on Prop 34
KCRW’s Matt Holzman produced this episode of Unfictional using the tapes At the Death House Door’s Rev. Carroll Pickett recorded after each of the execution’s he presided over.
Source: kcrw.com
…and there’s a whole part of us that knows we can barely trust the government to fill the potholes… And (to) let you set up this system of deciding life and death?
Sister Helen Prejean, author of ”Dead Man Walking” and anti-death penalty advocate
FILM: At the Death House Door
Source: oregonlive.com
It is one of the most wasteful and inefficient domestic programs ever conceived, costing state and federal taxpayers billions of dollars while succeeding in its objective only a small fraction of the time. It’s an embarrassment for one branch of government in particular, the executive branch, which zealously protects its turf by playing on emotion and fear while ignoring the magnitude of the problem. Over and over again, judges have recommended that the program be reformed, or halted, because it is arbitrary and capricious. Over and over again, the local lawmakers responsible for it have refused to accede. So still the program rolls on.
It’s Time for California to End Its Death Penalty
FILM: At the Death House Door
Source: The Atlantic
