mushinnoshin

His current woes regarding pay-to-play accusations notwithstanding, those of us who think it’s anathema for the state to commit murder (and unless you think the state is infallible, you can’t escape the reality that it sometimes does) still have to love this guy:

Richardson, a Democrat who formerly supported capital punishment, said signing the bill was the “most difficult decision” of his political life but that “the potential for … execution of an innocent person stands as anathema to our very sensibilities as human beings.”

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“Faced with the reality that our system for imposing the death penalty can never be perfect, my conscience compels me to replace the death penalty with a solution that keeps society safe,” Richardson told a news conference in the state Capitol.

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“If you’re going to put somebody to death, the … criminal justice system has to be perfect, and it isn’t,” he said.

Thanks to jaxn for the alert.