Pro-death arguments fail on facts

0 Comments | Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), March, 2002

Byline: WILLIAM LONG For The Register-Guard

THE TWIN PILLARS of Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis' defense of the death penalty (Register-Guard, Feb. 28) are that the people support it and that it is administered in a fair and dispassionate manner.

The linchpin of Marquis' argument, however, is that the death penalty is reserved for the "worst of the worst" in our society, and that the judicial system fairly administers this ultimate punishment to the worst of the worst. Using this logic, the people who are in line for impending execution ought to be the worst of the worst.

From Oregon's recent (since 1984) experience with the death penalty, nothing could be further from the truth.

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