On Oct 3, 2012, at 9:29 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hate to quibble but the vehemence with which liberal approach the
> death penalty issue strikes me as rather irrational. There are far
> more preventable deaths from other causes, traffic accidents,
> industrial accidents, crime, inadequate health care inadequate
> nutrition - to name a few, but among these death penalty occupies the
> center stage of the liberal attention. That is like saving the roses
> when the house is on fire. Why the fate of a few criminals commands
> so much liberal attention?
In the US - can't speak for anywhere else - the love of the DP is a symptom of a barbarically punitive approach to everything. The revival of the DP in the mid-1970s was a sign of a rightward repressive turn, and the fight against it is a fight for a somewhat more decent society.
Doug