Recently another state joined the murderers` club. Fortunately, the two men who had spent 17 1/2 years for murder in California and were freed March 25 had not been sen-tenced to death. Last year, two innocent occupants of death row were saved by last-minute con-fessions of those actually guilty.
As long as the possibility exists of one innocent person being murdered by the state, my reason for opposition is the irrevocability of death.
By putting criminals to death we merely align ourselves with totalitarian regimes, racial injustice and redneck ignorance. Killing is immoral whether done by the state or an individual.
The U.S. is the only western democracy that continues to kill its citizens in order to teach that killing is wrong. The only pur-pose is revenge; a civilized state should not engage in revenge. Don`t kill for me, Illinois.
