Death penalty under scrutiny: (Part 5): Time Editor-at-large David Von Drehle on, "The death of the death penalty: Why the era of capital punishment is ending."..."For the first time in the nearly 30 years that I have been studying and writing about the death penalty, the end of this troubled system is creeping into view. And I’ll give you five reasons why." (Must Read. HL);

STORY: "The death of the death penalty: Why the era of capital punishment is ending," by  David Von Drehle, published by Time Magazine; (David Von Drehle,  a TIME editor-at-large, is the author of Among the Lowest of the Dead, an award-winning history of the modern death penalty."

GIST: "The shift is more pragmatic than moral, as Americans realize that our balky system of state-sanctioned killing simply isn’t fixable. As a leader of the Georgia Republican Party, attorney David J. Burge, recently put it, “Capital punishment runs counter to core conservative principles of life, fiscal responsibility and limited government. The reality is that capital punishment is nothing more than an expensive, wasteful and risky government program.” This unmistakable trend dates back to the turn of the century.........For the first time in the nearly 30 years that I have been studying and writing about the death penalty, the end of this troubled system is creeping into view. And I’ll give you five reasons why.........The facts are irrefutable, and the logic is clear. Exhausted by so many years of trying to prop up this broken system, the court will one day throw in the towel."

The entire article can be found at:

http://time.com/deathpenalty/

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