"The effort has been backed by Richard Viguerie, a fundraiser and activist considered the father of the modern conservative movement. Viguerie, in a July 2009 essay in Sojourners magazine, wrote that executions are supposed to take the life of the guilty - but noted there are enough flaws in the system to fear an innocent person has been put to death."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/18/death-penalty-opponents-w_n_426836.html
What are the conservative issues surrounding capital punishmnet? What are the liberal views? What do they say is a problem with the system? How does this relate to what we are learning about the science of punishment?
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