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Although the article concerns the case of journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, currently on death row in Pennsylvania, the real argument here is about the death penalty. The phrase "Mumia should fry" illustrates unadulterated, bloodthirsty vengeance, based on the Old Testament...
There are also currently over 300 mentally retarded people on death row...
Finally, the death sentence is not infallible. Since 1972, 69 wrongfully-convicted people have been released from death row. In some terrible cases the accused have not been vindicated in time: At least 23 innocent people (based on later evidence) have been executed during this century...
...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...
...father was sitting in the back row, [and when I won], he stood up and said, `That's my boy!' Four guys in front of him turned around and said, `Mazel Tov,'" Rosenblatt said...