Let Death Penalty Die Analysis

On 02/05/2016, Audry Nance of Lincoln wrote “Let Death Penalty Die” and is an example of what happens when someone twists facts about the death penalty and government actions in general.
Even though the legislature did overturn the governor’s “spiteful veto” there is enough pro capital punishment supports to force a referendum and vote on it in the November election. Almost $1 million dollars was raised in the campaign to support the referendum, so the governor and his family were not the only contributors . While it is true that the governor and his family did back this campaign, he is well within his right to do so. There is no statute or case law that prevents him from supporting his cause. Look at the supporters that pushed to ban the death penalty. That almost half of a million dollars in contributions came from somewhere (Young “Death”). Are the contributors to the anti death penalty financing a crooked campaign? Your word “crooked” makes it sound like you think it is illegal. Is exercising our rights as citizens, as Ricketts did, really crooked? What is so crooked about doing exactly what the state and federal government allows us to do? What is spiteful about this veto? The ability to …show more content…
It also is, despite your claim otherwise, reliable. When they stick that needle in an inmate’s arm, that inmate going to die. That is as reliable as it gets. What is broken and unreliable is the court system. The death penalty didn’t fail those “144 innocent people sentenced to death [who] have since been exonerated by new evidence.” The court failed those people by wrongly convicting them. Perhaps your ire would be better directed at them. Modern science has evolved to ensure the right people are convicted and those falsely imprisoned are set free. Perhaps, your energy would be better directed at working towards freeing those wrongly convicted instead of not punishing those who rightly deserve