Sotomayor Failed to Disclose to Senate Memo in Which She Argued Death Penalty Is ‘Racist’ at CNS News.
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Memorandum to the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rican legal Defense and Educational Fund. from the Task Force on the bill to Restore the Death Penalty in New York State. March 24, 1981.
Capital punishment is associated with evident racism in our society. The number of minorities and the poor executed or awaiting execution is out of proportion to their numbers in the population.
The problem of crime and violence in American society is so complex, it is unreasonable to think that capital punishment will result in preventing it or diminishing it.
Our present perspective on the meaning of our values in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and the state of humanistic thinking in the world judge capital punishment as a violation of those values.
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