Friday, June 23, 2006
Letter to the Editor at Newsweek - Death Penalty
June 26th, 2006 Anna Quindlen wrote an article entitled The Failed Experiment.
It was a full page about how the death penalty in America is a failed experiment and how we should get rid of it. Her opinion definitly did not agree with me, so I had to let Newsweek how I felt. The following is the letter to the editor I wrote them:
If someone commits an unspeakably heinous act of murder against one of Anna Quindlen's loved ones, God forbid, then I will dust off this article and ask her how she feels about the death penalty now. The death penalty is meant to be a deterrent; however, it is also supposed to provide a sense of fairness and justice. So what if it provides the victims with solace in the process. I am more interested in the feelings and fairness associated with the victims than the criminals. Talk about a failed experiment, how many “rehabilitated” murderers and rapists are repeat offenders?
It was a full page about how the death penalty in America is a failed experiment and how we should get rid of it. Her opinion definitly did not agree with me, so I had to let Newsweek how I felt. The following is the letter to the editor I wrote them:
If someone commits an unspeakably heinous act of murder against one of Anna Quindlen's loved ones, God forbid, then I will dust off this article and ask her how she feels about the death penalty now. The death penalty is meant to be a deterrent; however, it is also supposed to provide a sense of fairness and justice. So what if it provides the victims with solace in the process. I am more interested in the feelings and fairness associated with the victims than the criminals. Talk about a failed experiment, how many “rehabilitated” murderers and rapists are repeat offenders?
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I would think that now we can use DNA to really prove guilt or innocense that the death penalty would be more fail-safe.
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