Last Sunday, an article I penned was published in the Louisville Courier-Journal. In it, I presented the many reasons why conservatives are increasingly opposing the death penalty. I wrote,
The Northern Kentucky Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty hosted its inaugural event Oct. 14 where a group of Kentuckians with initially mixed emotions on capital punishment attended. However, as the attendees learned how the death penalty is administered, many were shocked by the repeated and egregious failures in its application.
Capital punishment’s reality really is offensive, especially to conservatives who value life, fiscal responsibility and limited government.
I closed by stating,
The death penalty is quite clearly broken beyond repair, but capital punishment’s alternatives are safer, cheaper and more effective. More conservatives are recognizing this point. Political and thought leaders including Jay Sekulow, Dr. Ron Paul, Colonel Oliver North and Michael Steele have joined the growing number of conservatives who believe that the death penalty is neither useful nor necessary, and many have determined that capital punishment is simply dangerous in the hands of our error-prone government.