Dispatches: Death to the death penalty

This week’s Dispatches (Cranbury version) is on the Web. (Here is an editorial in the Asbury Park Press on the same subject.)

And, in case you missed it in last week’s Press, here is my review of the latest Bob Dylan (this week’s SB Post Dispatches).
South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press
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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

One thought on “Dispatches: Death to the death penalty”

  1. Hi. I just saw your death penalty piece on Commondreams.org. You know, I agree with much of what you say, and especially this sentence: \”Capital punishment is essentially nothing more than premeditated murder, a revenge killing dressed up as an act of justice.\” But when you ask this question…\”On what ethical grounds can we send a man to death if there is even the slightest of chances that he was not guilty?\”…for me, it begs the question \”On what ethical grounds can we send a man to prison if there is even the slightest of chances that he was not guilty?\”I\’m curious how you might respond to that.

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