The following questions cover all aspects of the barbarity of the death penalty:
Are we willing to sacrifice the lives of some innocent and wrongly convicted people to get revenge against some guilty people?
If 123 innocent people were released from death row in the last 35 years, how many innocent people were executed?
If 17 innocent people were released from death row in Illinois after a Northwestern University journalism class investigated the cases of people on death row, how many innocent people were executed?
Why don't we consider that 31 people in the last century have been executed in cases where there was extraordinarily strong evidence of their innocence?
When the criminal justice system is less accurate in determining guilt than the postal system is in delivering a letter, how can we trust the criminal justice system to execute someone?
Why aren't victims' rights advocates concerned about the many innocent and wrongly convicted people who are victims of the death penalty?
How do we compensate or exonerate an executed person if evidence comes out later of his innocence?
Would we be willing to be among the many innocent and wrongly convicted victims who are sacrificed so that people can be murdered by the state?
Could we imagine being sentenced to die for a crime we didn't commit?
Why would we support the death penalty when there is a nationwide and worldwide epidemic of corrupt cops knowingly charging people with crimes they didn't commit?
Why don't we consider that many politicians will allow a potentially innocent person to be executed if they think the execution will score them political points?
Why do we want to put a criminal out of his misery by executing him, so he can feel no more pain, instead of punishing him for life?
Isn't life in a cage with no possibility of parole a much harsher penalty than death?
Why don't we realize the death penalty is racist when although black people and white people are murdered in almost equal numbers, black people are frequently executed for killing white people, but white people are almost never executed for killing black people?
Why don't we realize the death penalty is racist when the chance of receiving a death sentence is nearly four times higher if the defendant is black?
Ashu M. G. Solo is an electrical and computer engineer, mathematician, writer, and entrepreneur. His research interests are in branches of engineering, math, and public policy, and he has numerous publications in these and other fields. He is the principal of Maverick Technologies America Inc. Solo previously served honorably as an infantry officer and platoon commander understudy in the Cdn. Army Reserve. He can be reached at amgsolo at mavericktechnologies.us.
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