I used to be an ardent supporter of the death penalty. But today, I am the co-founder of L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty, a group whose thousands of members stand against capital punishment in every case, without exception.
unfold in Georgia in 2012, and the reality that the state is not infallible, and that it can apply punishment to innocent human beings wrongly convicted, hit home. I learned
about how at least 190 people who had been wrongly convicted or sentenced to death in the United States have been exonerated since 1972. Other human beings whose guilt remains under significant doubt have been executed as recently as March of this year. Theof Jewish sage Rabbi Moses Maimonides on this matter offered much clarity: “It is better to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
Still, some doubts lingered in my mind. What about “the worst of the worst” offenders, or those, such as the Tree of Life shooter or Nazis, who committed deadly acts of terror? Paradoxically, it took the shadow of the Holocaust itself to cast off my final misgivings. I discovered, to my shock, that the main form of execution that we use here in the U.S., lethal injection, is a. Lethal injection was first implemented in our world by the Third Reich as part of their infamous Aktion T4 protocol, used to kill people deemed “unworthy of life” and developed by Dr. Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler.
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