Conservative reporter and friend of CCATDP, Danny Huizinga, published an article with Opportunity Lives in which he explained why conservatives should spearhead efforts to repeal the death penalty. Huizinga’s reasoning is simple.
He wrote,
“Conservatives should take the lead on opposing the death penalty because it is inaccurate, inequitable and inefficient.”
Huizinga went on to highlight many of the issues plaguing the death penalty, including risk to innocent lives, high costs, and its failure as a public policy. Huizinga also asked me to weigh in on the story, which he reported:
“Conservatives are increasingly advocating for the death penalty’s repeal because it violates our core tenets of valuing life and promoting fiscal responsibility and limited government,” Marc Hyden, the national advocacy coordinator for Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty, told Opportunity Lives. “Capital punishment inherently and repeatedly risks innocent lives, costs far more than life without parole, and it gives an error-prone state an immense power over the people.”