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The DA in San Antonio announced that he (and his staff) will not seek the death penalty against a suspect accused of killing a cop.
I don't have a problem with the decision, because the death penalty needs to be abolished outright. But what a crazy system we currently have. A DA has the right, without any oversight or rules, to decide whether someone lives. Truly. If this DA had sought the death penalty, we can't rule out the fact that he might have received it from a jury. But it he doesn't ask for it(based upon whatever reason he wants), it cannot happen.
One guy. A government worker. He can decide to shield a man from death. Heck, it's a one man death panel.
And for the life of me, I don't know how to fix it. Other than to abolish the death penalty option all the way around.
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* Words from the greatest dissent in the history of the Supreme Court.
