tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475970260090876541.post-69715449926200882352008-07-02T11:48:00.004-04:002008-07-03T16:05:36.725-04:002008-07-03T16:05:36.725-04:00Indianapolis weekly magazine Nuvo published an <a href="http://nuvo.net/articles/one_man_band/">in-depth piece on InCASE Executive Director Will McAuliffe</a> in today's issue. For those of you in the Indianapolis area, be sure to pick one up and for those who can't grab a copy, <a href="http://nuvo.net/articles/one_man_band/">be sure to check it out online</a>.:<blockquote>Where many arguments about the death penalty revolve around the moral issue of whether the government should award itself the right to take the lives of certain citizens, McAuliffe takes a different tack. For him, the death penalty is nothing more than another government program. And as government programs go, McAuliffe finds it wanting. <p>“It hasn’t proven to do anything,” he says. “We spend about 40 percent more on it than it would cost to imprison somebody for the entirety of their life. What are we getting for that? There are no conclusive results. Capital punishment gets the least scrutiny and honest discussion by society as a whole.” </p> <p>McAuliffe believes this lack of scrutiny is due, in part, to the perverse coupling of an elongated judicial process — it takes, on average, 12.5 years for capital cases to run a gauntlet of appeals before finally arriving at the death chamber door — and a society with a short attention span.</p> <p>“We need to look at it and ask, what are we paying for? What are we getting?”</p></blockquote>UPDATE: The Nuvo site has had a bit of trouble so the link has changed. You can <a href="http://nuvo.net/articles/one_man_band/">find the InCASE Nuvo article here</a> (links above updated as well).InCASEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599215290163371510noreply@blogger.com2