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Having spent the past 10 years in an intense examination of the Illinois capital punishment system, I am in complete agreement with the Tribune that the death penalty should be abolished (“
,'” Feb. 28). Efforts to make it error-proof are illusory. Even if every one of the recommendations made to improve the system were enacted — an assumption that is also illusory — the risk of human error would persist. There is simply no way to ensure we won’t execute innocent persons. And the past 10 years with a moratorium in effect have shown that our criminal justice system doesn’t need death as a potential punishment.
— Thomas P. Sullivan, Chicago
