Word: oppenheimer
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...Noah Oppenheim's "Execute the Cop Killer" (Column, Feb. 5) represents everything that is wrong with the death penalty. The editorial illustrates the savage, barbaric nature of the death penalty and the totally unacceptable justifications used to defend...
...Maybe Oppenheim and others should direct their ire towards a government that is killing people through racism and poverty, that tolerates and likely even encourages racist police violence, racial segregation, patriarchy and homophobia instead of against Jamal. JUSTIN P. STEIL '00 February...
Readers of Noah D. Oppenheim's frightening editorial "The Cop Killer Should Fry" (Opinion, Feb. 5) should know that the facts of the case are in wide dispute. It is a little suspect that the award-winning president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, long an outspoken critic of the Philadelphia police and government, just happened to drive by a cop beating his brother. The Philadelphia police at the time were so corrupt and brutal that the U.S. Justice Department eventually filed a suit against them based on numerous accounts of police misconduct, including the framing of innocent citizens...
...articles printed the same morning of Oppenheim's editorial are especially ironic. The first was about an African-American man, Anthony Porter, who had been on death row for 16 years and came within two days of being executed. Last week, journalism students at Northwestern University found the real murderer and recorded his confession. When released, Porter will be the 76th wrongfully convicted American freed from the hell of death row. How many innocent people have already been murdered by the state, whose administration of justice has been proven to be discriminatory on the basis of both race and class...
...violent and vengeful rhetoric of Oppenheim's article calling for the frying of another human shows complete disrespect for the sanctity of human life. The racist death penalty is the final end in a legal system perpetuating injustice...