US Death Penalty Enacts Terror, Not Justice

Max Eternity @ Truthout - The death penalty, author Stephen John Harnett contends, comes straight out of the playbook of American slavery and was constructed as "part of the arsenal of violence used both to repress slaves in the South and to intimidate the opponents of slavery in the North." The cover illustration of Harnett's book depicts a black man being lynched - which is fitting because report after report indicate the death penalty serves only to effectively maintain legal lynching.  Read more.