Former Connecticut state pros­e­cu­tor and legal ana­lyst Susan Filan recent­ly stat­ed that the death penal­ty is not an appro­pri­ate sen­tence, par­tic­u­lar­ly when the crime appears to be a heinous vio­la­tion of the sanc­ti­ty of life . In her com­men­tary post­ed on MSNBC​.com, Filan wrote:

As a for­mer pros­e­cu­tor I believe I under­stand the emo­tion involved in a mur­der case. I have seen first­hand the rage and fury and grief that fam­i­lies of mur­der vic­tims express. The pain is inde­scrib­able. But I have nev­er under­stood how killing the killer in return achieves jus­tice or relieves pain. Why isn’t life in prison with­out parole pun­ish­ment enough? If we pun­ish killers, because killing is wrong, why is it right to kill a killer?

(MSNBC​.com, February 5, 2007). See New Voices.

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