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Abolition of the Death Penalty Print E-mail

The death penalty is unjust, unnecessary, expensive and ineffective. The United States and Kentucky is at a tipping point with years of declining support for the death penalty. In fact, in 2007 the Herald Leader reported that given the choice of sentencing a murderer to death or a long prison term, 69% say prison is the appropriate sentence.

In light of all the new information we have available, you do not have to be an abolitionist to understand executions are just bad public policy. This is reflected in the host of other states introducing abolition legislation with major success in New Jersey and New Mexico.