I strongly disagree

created Tuesday, July 19th, 2005 10:57:53am

My state is going to kill someone.  His name is Donald Fell and a jury 
of his (and, presumably, my) peers thought it best to go against decades 
of Vermont law (and, I'd like to think, humanitarian tradition) and ship 
him off to death row.  As the subject suggests, I strongly disagree, and 
it makes me very sad.  I mean, where is the logic here?  Are we to 
believe capital punishment acts as a deterrant?  That it assuages the 
guilt of the family of the woman he murdered?  Or that it's only fair 
recompense for his actions?  I feel like the dead horse has been beaten 
enough on the topic, and still we dance around this idea that somehow 
it's "Justice" - capital J, boldfaced and concrete.  And I defy that.  
There can be no justice, there can be no recompense for the loss of a 
life.  One life for another doesn't balance the scales (where/whatever 
they might be), it just tips them even further out of balance.  

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