The death penalty has no moral weight where casual state violence is the norm
Memorial to the victims of the 2018 mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for Robert Bowers, the Pennsylvania man charged with murdering 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh last year. Bowers shouted, “All Jews must die,” during his rampage, which unfolded at morning services on October 27.
There’s little evidence that executing people convicted of crimes constitutes anything nobler or more effective than revenge. It’s never been proven to deter criminal behavior. It ensnares innocent and wrongly-convicted people at an alarming rate, as evidenced by how an average of three death row inmates a year were exonerated from 1973 to 1999, rising to five a year from 2000 to 2011. It’s racist — black prisoners are executed at a rate more than double their population share.
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