That's the title of Diann Rust-Tierney's latest essay at Huffington Post. She's Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
I am thinking about Dr. King and what he said about capital punishment:
"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars."
If the reality of leading a prisoner from a cage to be killed is not equated with violence, some might miss how this statement relates to capital punishment. If we accept that finality trumps taking every possible precaution against a wrongful execution, we might miss the point. If we accept that racial disparities in death sentencing are inevitable and tolerable, as the Supreme Court has, we might not grasp that Dr. King's statement calls out executions in parts of Florida, Alabama, Ohio, Texas and Oklahoma.
You can jump to more of Diann Rust-Tierney's writings at HuffPost.
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