The death penalty is neither deterrant nor retribution.
The death penalty marks the place society accords to the voice of the victim, a voice which is missing.
There's no place for that in the modern left.
The U.N. General Assembly’s vote for a global moratorium on the death penalty was a milestone, yet its symbolic weight made barely a ripple in the U.S.
``I must give him his due. He has considerably cretinized me.'' Lautréamont
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