Regarding the letter about the death penalty, “Clearly violates Constitution”: Perhaps the writer missed the 5th Amendment when he quoted from the 8th Amendment. It reads, in part, “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury…” and again “nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law…” The Constitution allows for capital punishment after a grand jury indictment within due process of law.
After failing to have capital punishment ruled unconstitutional, people who oppose it have gone to the lower state courts to get one method after another tossed until we’re left with lethal injection and then they fight that, too. It’s clear that from the beginning, capital punishment was allowed by law in every state specifying various methods never considered cruel or unusual, at least not until the progressive movement hit America. Now, progressives are attacking the very meaning of words so that the “free exercise of” religion now means freedom from it and “cruel and unusual” now means anything distasteful to some. Even the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the word state in “exchange established by the state,” doesn’t actually mean state, but can mean federal, referring to government health care exchanges. Redefining as a means to an end.
It seems the meaning of words have become a Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey thing of fiction.
Lou Kitz
Darrington
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