Death Penalty
* Re “Death Penalty Is Overturned in Most Cases,” June 12: Those who advocate the viewpoint, correctly, that the government tends to be inefficient and make many mistakes must also accept that this same system, run by the same process, will make many mistakes in the area of capital punishment. If “mistakes” cannot be tolerated in this most serious and final judgment, then the death penalty should not be used, but life in prison should have no “escape clause.”
Society, which has advocated the death penalty, might be swayed if it were assured that for certain crimes, life imprisonment is the “final judgment” instead of execution.
ROY A. FASSEL
Los Angeles
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