CCATDP’s Charles Koch Institute Communications Fellow, Caitlin Grimes, recently penned an op-ed for Red Alert Politics. In the article, she highlighted the many reasons why millennials are rejecting the death penalty. She cited the risk of executing an innocent person, faulty forensic analyses, botched executions, and capital punishment’s high cost as the key factors that influence millennials’ views on the death penalty. Caitlin wrote,
With this track record, young Americans have good reason to question giving government the permission to determine whose life is valuable and when it should be extinguished. How can we be the land of the free if we are ranked fifth in the world in number of executions?
If we are to remain the leader of the free world, we must set the example when it comes to the justice system. We must prove that we have faith in our justice system because we know that those within it are taking all measures possible to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. It is time to start a discussion about the death penalty.