NY Times Weighs In on "Questions of Fairness" and the Death Penalty's Return

The New York Times had this article entitled "As Executions Resume, So Do Questions of Fairness", highlighting the recent exonerations of death row inmates around the country as evidence of an imperfect death penalty system.

Additionally, today's editorial which questioned the death penalty's validity held some strong arguments:

The next few months, as states put their machinery of death into overdrive, are an ideal time for the nation to rethink its commitment to capital punishment...

In the Kentucky case, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a separate opinion in which he enumerated the many problems with the application of the death penalty and said that he decided that it is inherently unconstitutional. He also expressed his hope that the case would generate debate not just about lethal injection but about “the justification for the death penalty itself.” With executioners gearing up across the country to start putting prisoners to death, state legislatures, governors, judges and ordinary Americans should start that debate.