A person locked away for life could always be exonerated. We have many cases of people who are given the death penalty and then executed who were later found to be innocent. That is unacceptable to me. Even if I believed that there are situations where we should have the death penalty, our inability to wield it responsibly negates that.

I think the moment you use cost to start deciding how we should ethically behave with something as serious as state sanctioned murder you’re going down a very, very dark path.

everybody should have the full duration of their life to become who they’re going to be. Even the most heinous of criminals can change. Unless you don’t believe everyone is capable of change and we should treat people like they are exactly who they’re going to be and can’t redeem themselves