Ben Civiletti and the death penalty
Addendum to today's column:
The widely respected former U.S. Attorney General said yesterday on Midday that he hopes Marylanders read the report of the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment with an open mind and learn something from it, as he did as commission chairman. "My hope," Civiletti said, "is that people will look at the facts as we presented them and say, 'I never knew that.' There are three myths about the death penalty -- that it serves as a deterrence to other homicides, that it is cheaper than keeping someone in prison for life, and that there's no chance we'd actually execute an innocent person."
