Prop62
Prop62
2016年11月
如果你是加利福尼亚州的选民，今年的选票上有一项重要的提案：第62号提案，该提案禁止死刑。
我年轻的时候常常认为死刑辩论的焦点是什么时候可以剥夺人的生命。杀死一个杀人犯是否可以？
但这里的问题不是这个。
现实世界并不像我在电视上看到的那样。警察经常抓错人。被告的律师往往无能。检察官往往更多地追求名气而不是正义。
在现实世界中，大约4%被判死刑的人是无辜的。所以这不是关于杀死杀人犯是否可以的问题。这是关于杀死无辜的人是否可以的问题。
连小孩子都能为你回答这个问题。
今年，在加利福尼亚，你有机会结束这种情况，就是对第62号提案投赞成票。但要小心，因为还有另一个提案，第66号提案，其目标是更容易执行死刑。所以62号提案投赞成票，66号提案投反对票。
是时候了。
Prop62
November 2016
If you’re a California voter, there is an important proposition on your ballot this year: Proposition 62, which bans the death penalty.
When I was younger I used to think the debate about the death penalty was about when it’s ok to take a human life. Is it ok to kill a killer?
But that is not the issue here.
The real world does not work like the version I was shown on TV growing up. The police often arrest the wrong person. Defendants’ lawyers are often incompetent. And prosecutors are often motivated more by publicity than justice.
In the real world, about 4% of people sentenced to death are innocent. So this is not about whether it’s ok to kill killers. This is about whether it’s ok to kill innocent people.
A child could answer that one for you.
This year, in California, you have a chance to end this, by voting yes on Proposition 62. But beware, because there is another proposition, Proposition 66, whose goal is to make it easier to execute people. So yes on 62, no on 66.
It’s time.