Update on Mr. Gentry’s status, Death Row, WA State, Walla Walla, WA State Penitentiary

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:

http://conservativesconcerned.org/why-were-concerned/