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...move that reveals his indifference to ethical principles, Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney announced on Tuesday the creation of a Governor’s Council on Capital Punishment. Comprised of experts in forensics and criminal justice, the Council’s assignment is to devise a system to determine guilt with sufficient certainty to prove that the death penalty—which was abolished in Massachusetts in 1984—can be reinstated without concern of wrongful executions. Romney’s attempt to make the death penalty palatable is both a moral abomination and an unreasonable pipe dream...
...Romney stressed that the council has only been formed because scientific advances have allowed for guilt and innocence to be more accurately determined...
...Romney added that the council is not responsible for determining whether Massachusetts should reinstate the death penalty, but only for drafting legislation so that the death penalty could be applied in a very narrow scope of situations, namely “terrorist attacks and mass murder, assassination of police officers, judges and prison guards and very heinous crimes...
When questioned as to what would happen if the council found that there was no fair and just way to have capital punishment in society, Romney said he would not change his view as to the moral legitimacy of the death penalty but would follow its recommendations...
...group of this nature came back with such a result, it would be very compelling, and I would be wise to take heed of that. I would not change my position on the death penalty,” Romney said...