That's the title of an OpEd at the Daily Caller, written by former Montana State Senator Roy Brown. He's a founding member of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty.
As a conservative Republican, I believe in individual rights, restraints on government power, fiscal responsibility and the right to life. America’s death penalty system violates each of these principles. That’s why I’m one of a growing number of conservatives who want to abolish it.
And:
Conservatives have lots of compelling reasons to question the death penalty. Even many who still support capital punishment in theory are beginning to concede that the system is fatally broken and should be scrapped, with the savings returned to the taxpayers. Conservatives should weigh what we know today against the values and principles that have always defined us.
The time has come for conservatives to take the lead in ending expensive government programs that don’t work. The death penalty system is broken and can’t be fixed. Let’s end it.
Earlier coverage of the conservative case against capital punishment begins at the link.
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