At the Death House Door

  • Posted by smijer
  • May 28, 2008

We’re probably going to have to wait on this to hit DVD. I doubt a Chattanooga theatre will run it.  But anyway… the trailer will follow.  Not before a note about a recent study re-confirming the ongoing racism in the death culture. Nothing in the study or in my own experience helps me discern whether this is primarily conscious racism, unconscious racism or structural racism, but it’s inescapable that this represents racism of some sort. For many instances of racism - structural or otherwise - the ideal is to modify our practices to free them of the racist influence. With the death penalty, there is no baby in the bathwater… Throw it all out. If we can’t bring ourselves to do that, though, we should at least declare a moratorium on the death penalty until we are absolutely sure we have fixed the race problem it has now. We can’t let people die because of their skin color and call ourselves people of conscience.

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Buck
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May 28, 2008 at 9:42 am

That preacher makes me glad that I have the job I have. I would not have wanted his job for any amount of money in the world.

I was shocked to learn that the state of Texas still uses a drug for lethal injection that has been banned by veterinarians for use on animals because it is considered too cruel and painful.

There is no doubt in my mind that the death penalty should be banned. It solves nothing. It deters nothing.

When the guards and the warden are sick and throwing up because of the duty they are about to perform that tells me that there is something terribly wrong with the duty they are about to perform.

Maybe someday our society will decide to ban the practice. I hope so.

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Steve
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May 30, 2008 at 4:38 pm

Look at the statistics in Pa. alone. Almost 90% of colored men have been in some form of the corrections department during their lives. That being said, it is no wonder that the majority of the people being put to death are colored. Heck, I fear walking in primarily ethnic neighborhoods- with statistics like that, who wouldn’t? I also say keep the death penalty. All of these right wing, bible thumping Christian conservatives should agree as well- What does your good book say, “an eye for an eye” RIGHT?