Shall We Condone Domestic Crimes Against Humanity?
Much has been written about what Trump will do if elected to another Presidential term. Some of it tells about Trump’s lawlessness and penchant for violence. He once wanted police to shoot peaceful demonstrators in the legs.
I have been a lifelong opponent of capital punishment and was angry that president Trump ordered the military to shoot rock-throwing migrants seeking asylum. That order is the same as inflicting capital punishment on those desperate people, people whose children he ripped away and imprisoned, adopted out, or simply lost. If Trump will order death for rock throwers, against whom won’t he order lethal force?
Capital punishment for throwing a rock at child abductors. Sounds like a crime against humanity to me.
I am proud that my criminal justice career was in Michigan, a state that outlawed capital punishment on May 18, 1846, the first English-speaking government in the world to do so. Before 1846 fifteen people were executed in Michigan: Seven native Americans; seven European-Americans; and one African-American. In 1963 Michigan held a constitutional convention and reaffirmed the illegality of the death penalty.
During my career I have been offered corrections jobs in other states that had the death penalty and I refused them all; I in no way wanted to participate in or be associated with…
