Federal
court removes hold on Kitsap killer's execution :
Kitsap Sun 2014/feb. 5
“Wednesday,
February 5, 2014 ... Although Judge Robert Lasnik's removal of the stay
indicates, for now, the federal courts will allow the execution to take place,
a state hold on Gentry's sentence still is in place until at least Wednesday
and…” the article also indicated more appeals are pending
dealing with retesting DNA.
This means we need
to be prepared and work to express our desires to our legislators and our
Governor:
Do we want to be responsible for killing another human being?
Do we want our government to be an instrument of taking the lives of its
citizens? Should our State be in the business of killing?
When we have the
capability of separating a person considered dangerous to society, therefore
keeping both the individual and the collective safe, should we be wasting money
and resources to carry out the Capital Punishment system?
Ending the Death
Penalty will ensure we never chance executing an innocent person – which has
been proven to be a real risk:
142 persons have been exonerated from death rows in the U.S.A.
We know we have accidentally executed other innocents…
Help restore human
dignity and respect of human life by ending the death penalty.
Conservatives
Concerned About the Death Penalty are saying:
We come to
this issue for a variety of reasons:
Some of us
believe that small government and the death penalty don’t go together,
especially when we compare the high costs of capital punishment to life without
possibility of release.
Some of us
don’t trust the state to get it right. We already know that some innocent
people have been sentenced to death, and for others it may already be too late.
Some of us
are disturbed by the roller coaster for family members of murder victims, or
wonder why we’re investing so much in a system that doesn’t keep us any safer
than the alternatives.
Some of us
believe that the death penalty contradicts our values about protecting life.
And for many
other reasons…
“Conservatives have every
reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any
politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which
we conservatives know are rife with injustice. But here the end result is the
end of someone’s life. In other words, it’s a government system that kills
people.”
Richard Viguerie
We are
questioning a system marked by inefficiency, inequity, and inaccuracy.
Learn more here:
