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Commentary: Texas is too quick to execute young capital offenders
William S. Bush, For the Express-News
May 8, 2021
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Wrongful convictions and litigation costs are two reasons to oppose the death penalty. Another is the toll on youthful offenders judged by the problematic idea of “future dangerousness.”Carlos Antonio Rios /Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Ruben Cantu was 17 when he was accused of shooting a victim nine times with a rifle before emptying at least nine more rounds into the only eyewitness, a man who barely survived to testify. Executed in 1993, he was likely innocent.Family photoShow MoreShow Less
Re: “With death penalty, Texas clinging to a relic of the past,” Other Views, Sunday:
Commentary: With death penalty, Texas clinging to a relic of the past
Roger C. Barnes, For the Express-News
May 1, 2021
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“The death penalty is unjust, racially biased, and ineffective at deterring crime.”
From a letter by 12 Virginia prosecutors urging abolition of the death penalty in the state
In March, Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia did something Texas Gov. Greg Abbott would consider unthinkable. He signed a bill abolishing the death penalty, making Virginia the first Southern state to stop executions.
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It was a significant step for Virginia, the first European colony in what is now the United States to have an execution in 1608. Going back to colonial times, Virginia has carried out more executions 1,390 than any U.S. jurisdiction. Since 1976, when the death penalty was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia’s 113 executions trails only Texas’s 570.
A few hours after a Sekondi High Court had found Samuel Udeotuk Wills and John Orji guilty on charges of conspiracy to murder and murder and sentenced the duo to death by hanging, Amnesty International was on the air condemning the death sentence.
The Campaign Coordinator of Amnesty International Ghana, Samuel Abotsey, according to www.citinewsroom.com, questioned the country’s continued reliance on the death penalty when it has actually never been executed since 1992.
“In Ghana, the law still permits the judges to make that pronouncement, and so we cannot force the judges or the country, but we believe that the continuous use of the death penalty is not the way to go, because evidence has shown that… there could be mistakes in evidence gathering; there could be mistakes in the investigation; the wrong people could be charged.
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