Reuben Cantu
From the Reason Hit and Run entry:Just over a dozen years ago, Texas executed Reuben Cantu for a brutal murder committed during a robbery. Now, via TalkLeft, it seems a Houston Chronicle investigation has turned up pretty conclusive evidence clearing him.
I've been openly critical of states that still practice executions. But not for this. Although headlines such as these are indisputably tragic, mistakes and abuses of public policy are a reality of governing. You will win no converts by making policy arguments based on evidence of mistakes and abuses. Firemen make mistakes. Should we send the whole lot of them home?
It is the core of capital punishment that is in question, not the rind.
In an earlier post I wrote, "Either human life is or is not part of the purview of government.... Human life trumps all other considerations, even the life of a man who has taken the life of another."
posted by Immanuel Can't @ 11:59 AM
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In a representative republic, the purview of government is exactly what the governed say it is. No more and no less. It is the purview of government to deny you your property, your "life as you know it" (i.e. internment), or any right if you do not hold up the responsibility that goes along with it.
By what measure is life itself any different? If the governed determine that the denial of life is within the purview of their government, then it is.
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