Just Deserts in Alabama
“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” — Adam Smith
Keith Gavin was convicted of murder in Illinois in 1982. Although sentenced to 34 years in prison, he was paroled in only half that time. The next month after his release, he shot and killed William Clayton during a robbery in Centre, Alabama.
Gavin did not get off so easy the second time. The U.S. Supreme Court denied his stay request yesterday, and he was executed about 6:00 pm.
The Alabama Political Reporter has this story.
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Even as evidence that the death penalty is ineffective continues to mount. https://dppolicy.substack.com/p/dp3-analysis-the-death-penalty-does
A simplistic correlational study by anti-death-penalty advocates has so little value that it does not amount to significant “evidence.”