MB Civic

David Dayen at Firedoglake ..

Almost imperceptibly, and despite nominal support nationally for capital punishment, states are, one by one, abolishing the death penalty, citing the risks of executing innocents, the inherent biases in the system, and the extreme costs. Legislatures in New Jersey, New Mexico and Illinois have abolished the death penalty in recent years, and the courts in New York found it in violation of the state Constitution. Now, Connecticut is poised to become the 17th state to ban the death penalty .. Maintaining Death Row and managing the death penalty system is prohibitively expensive. A ballot measure this November in California will seek to abolish the death penalty, and one of their major selling points is the billion-dollar-a-year cost

god forbid we abolish it on moral grounds – mab .. read more