>Do you mean (1) you'd
>vote for KEEPING the death
>penalty if it ever came
>into question

I would vote it down, if it came to a vote.

or (2) that
>you're opposed to it BECAUSE
>the poor/minority populations are overrepresented
>on death row?

I am opposed to the death penalty because the American injustice system routinely penalizes the poor/minority populations, by finding them guilty when they aren't, and being harsher with sentencing. The whole system is stacked against us from legislation, enforcement, and to prosecution, despite constitutional protections.

This is also why I'm against hate crime legislation. Not all inter-racial crime is motivated by race, but say a black man kills a white man and they find a dead prez tape in his car....

But as a philosophical/moral point, some folks deserve to die for their crimes. But we as a society can't improve our system to eliminate major statistical variances.

The real difference on this group is that folks don't believe that any crime merits death, or at least that's what the truly principled argue. Others are kinda wishy washy.

peace
k. orr