STARVIN' FOR JUSTICE 2002
9th Annual Fast & Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty at the U.S. Supreme Court
29th June - 2nd July, 2002
 
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         Courting the abolishment of the death penalty
 

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"Thirty years ago in Furman the U.S. Supreme Court tried to housebreak the Tyrannosaurus Rex that is the American death penalty. Unsurprisingly, the effort failed badly, and the monster has continued to foul the house of American criminal justice ever since. Furman did two things for us. It helped us to see more clearly the gap between the pious pretensions of a decent and egalitarian system of criminal justice and the kind of rotten system that has to be run and legally condoned in order to make space for the penalty of death. And it made clear that there can be no workable compromise between the two systems. We will have decency or we will have death; to pretend that we can have both is self-delusion or hypocrisy. The choice must be made; and I thank God for the clear-sightedness and courage of activist organizations and individual activists who will not leave [the] current state of hypocrisy unexposed or let the system rest until it makes the choice -- and makes the right choice -- once and for all."