[lbo-talk] Death penalty (was: Singapore)

[Carrol Cox]

> People I know who are anti death penalty activists and principled
opponents in my
> experience tend to object to its racism its victimization of the poor, its
> reinforcement of the excessively punitive nature of criminal justice, its
high error
> rate the risk of executing the innocent, and the lack of due process and
adequate
> defense afforded people charged with capital crimes. Anti statism does not
figure
> largely in my experience. I agree with these reasons given the current
state of of
> our criminal justice system.

See an article in LLR by  Peter Linebaugh.  It focuses on the death penalty
as part of the overall class struggle.

I would add that the basic objection to supporters of the Death Penalty is
that they are _either_ highly class-conscious capitalists _or_ fucking
racists, whether they know it or not.

Carrol