“The old abolitionism” frames the death penalty as an issue of morality and is unabashedly engaged with those questions.
He concluded: “There can be no stepping back from this position. Today we state clearly that ‘the death penalty is inadmissible’ and the Church is firmly committed to calling for its abolition worldwide.”in some instances, death penalty opponents in this country have made great progress by highlighting new abolitionism arguments and, in many cases, eschewing or downplaying the moral argument against capital punishment.
In this speech, Edwards gave a preview of the arguments he made again in his Aug. 9 letter to the clemency board. He began by staking out a new abolitionist position and joining the major thrust of contemporary opposition to the death penalty.He described capital punishment as “very final, not because it’s perfect, but because it ends in someone’s death, and we know that there are far more exonerations off of our death row over the last 20 years, than actual executions, which has been one.
In late May, a little less than two months after Edwards unveiled his two-pronged attack on the death penalty, abolitionists in Louisiana, who had been energized by the governor’s support, suffered a setback after the Republican-controlled committee in the state House of RepresentativesThis is the fifth time in the past six years that the Louisiana Legislature has rejected similar proposals.
In June, 56 of the state’s 60 death row inmates opened up a different avenue for Edwards when they filed petitions seeking clemency. But one month later, after
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