This is an outstanding article on Rick Halperin. Halperin (for those who don't know) is a professor and human rights activist in Texas. He is president of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and he once headed up Amnesty International USA. Halperin has dedicated the greater part of his life to abolition of the death penalty. I have a link in my sidebar to his website for those who are interested. Halperin tracks death penalty related news from around the world and keeps links to a myriad of statistics. Here is my favorite quote from the article:

"But for Halperin those are secondary arguments [innocence, racism, cost, etc.]. His revulsion boils down to one fundamental principal: the immorality, he says, of taking a human life at any time and for any reason.

'There is no such thing as a lesser person,' he repeatedly insists. 'There are different people, but they're not lesser.'"

Amen, Rick. Amen.


For Dear Life