One of Moshe's many keen insights: "You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes."
Here is Moshe ben Maimon's Wikiquote page: https://en.wikiquote.
A sidelight...
I have known NC Attorney General Josh Stein from his teens, and when Josh attended the Kennedy School of Government, it was either his thesis (or a major paper he was particularly fond of) that was devoted to Maimonides.
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 3:34 PM MH wrote:
Done with comment:
Law students everywhere learn...
"It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death." - Maimonides
who argued that executing an accused criminal on anything less than absolute certainty would lead to a slippery slope of decreasing burdens of proof, until we would be convicting merely "according to the judge's caprice". With DNA, statistics, computers, and discovery of DAs' suppressed evidence, all sorts of caprice are found today. Maimonides' concern was maintaining popular respect for law and saw errors of commission as much more threatening than errors of omission.
Executing under the current system only adds to our errors of commission.
-- M. B. H., Statistician
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My comment
Pope Francis has declared the death penalty morally unacceptable. Please take the lead Gov. Ricketts in bringing an end to this barbaric practice. Sincerely, Patrick O'Neill
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p., in just a few days, Nebraska is poised to move forward with the state's first execution in 20 years.
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Just two years ago, a bipartisan super-majority in Nebraska’s unicameral Legislature voted to repeal the death penalty. Gov. Ricketts personally funded a referendum effort to reinstate the failed program.
Despite Gov. Ricketts vigorous support of capital punishment, his Catholic faith could provide the opening we need to stop this execution.
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Gov. Ricketts is convinced that capital punishment remains the will of the people. But attitudes towards the death penalty are quickly shifting, particularly among conservatives.
Republican Colby Coash, a former Nebraska senator, was instrumental in abolishing the death penalty in 2015. He said his faith turned him from once being a supporter of the death penalty to one of its strongest opponents:
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The death penalty is costly, unfair, and inaccurate. It is applied in an unjust manner, largely dependent on the accused's race, income, ability, and whether the victim is white.
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