Death Penalty In The Legislature

At the height of the Elijah Page controversy last year, I wrote that the death penalty is just punishment but unwise policy.  See the link for my reasoning.  It looks like the legislature has shot down an attempt to revoke South Dakota's capital punishment provision.  While I do not buy into the lazy reasoning that one must be against the death penalty to be authentically pro-life, I do suggest that a legislature that repealed the death penalty and greatly restricted abortion would send a strong message in favor of the right to human life.

For more on the legislature and the death penalty, see this story.