Word: deathe
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...year for peace abroad and progress at home, today's voting marks a bitter conclusion. But in Massachusetts, there is still one unambiguously good and decent thing that voters can do today. This is to vote "No" on Question #6, and thus to help speed the abolition of the death penalty in this state...
...traditional argument in support of capital punishment is that it deters crime. But states where capital punishment has been abolished do not have significantly higher murder rates than those where it is still on the books. Almost all of the countries of Western Europe have abolished the death penalty, and yet all of these countries have proportionately fewer murders than the United States. This admittedly does not "prove" that individuals have not been deterred from murder by the death penalty, but we certainly have no reason to expect that they have been...
Recently, a new development has underlined the need to abolish the death penalty. This is the tendency for capital cases to drag on for years and even decades, until a new class of convict has been created--the permanent resident of Death Row. The surreal horror of this kind of situation should be enough to convince anyone that the death penalty is creating far more suffering than it is preventing...
...voters' answer to Question #6 (which reads "Should the Commonwealth retain capital punishment for crime?") will not be binding on the state. But it is nonetheless obvious that a "No" vote will make final abolition of the death penalty more likely here...
Appointed Sheriff last February by Governor Volpe, after the death of the Democratic incumbent, Sears has innovated an imaginative "volunteer deputy" program to compensate for a lack of foot patrolmen in the city. His theory is that local leaders can cool a street fight or budding riot better than uniformed police, and people in Dorchester and Roxbury would undoubtedly agree...