RedState Morning Briefing
For September 22, 2011
The first post today is on Troy Davis. I want to make clear that I have a lot of friends who oppose the death penalty. They have valid reasons for doing so. But those of my friends who oppose the death penalty have not been out planting or reaping seeds of doubt the Troy Davis defense has, for twenty years, been sowing. For twenty years, for multiple trips to the Supreme Court, and despite all the hollering from the Davis supporters, he has been consistently found guilty.
What is ironic to me is the large number of liberals who think the state should abandon its 5000+ year history and, in this country additionally, its constitutional role in meting out death as the ultimate punishment, but should suddenly embrace as a duty those things the government has no long history or constitutional authority to take on.
Contrary to last night’s “clever” talking point on the left, there is no conflict between a belief in limited government and support for the death penalty. That penalty has long been an explicit power of the state. Troy Davis is dead. May Mark MacPhail, the real victim, rest in peace.
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