The American Death Penalty – Video worth checking out

By: Kristy Angeline Lamm

The Indianapolis Peace and Justice Center is committed to providing information that will educate and motivate our community to take action for a more peaceful and just world. One of the many issues that our network organizations advocate is the unjust nature of the current American Death Penalty.

I believe that it is absolutely impossible for our jurisprudence system, comprised completely of people, to be absolutely right or fair in every instance; we are all fallible human beings. With that said, it is also worth exploring whether the death penalty should be used in any instance in a so-called civilized country such as ours. Should our Government acting on behalf “of the people” have the authority to premeditatedly put an American human being to death? Putting aside the obvious misery caused to innocent Americans by criminals who should without a doubt be punished; the question remains: should “we the people” continue the state sponsored practice of “an eye for and eye”?

This important issue garnered significant attention when Troy Davis was executed but it has since virtually disappeared from main stream media. On September 22, 2011 Lawrence O’Donnell discussed the American Death Penalty in a different light, with different questions that are worth thinking about. I hope that you will take a moment to check this video out, it is well worth it.

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” – Gandhi (Mahatma), Mahadev Haribhai Desai, (1957), The Story of My Experiments with Truth; Beacon Press

http://thelastword.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/22/7908814-rewriting-the-american-death-penalty