The wrong argument for clemency
This kind of help probably does more harm than good.
The writer of today's Counterpoint suggests that the mother should have been investigated in the death of her daughter.
Stepfather Samuel Flippen was convicted of beating 2-year-old Britnie Hutton to death and is scheduled to die by lethal injection Aug. 18. He never suggested any involvement by the mother, but claimed that the child fell from her high chair. The mother was at work.
I made the case against capital punishment on the basis of its inconsistent application.
Trying to shift blame from Flippen to the victim's mother is the wrong argument.
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