By Chris Marvin
A good friend of mine is a death penalty mitigation specialist. She helps exonerate indigent people who have been wrongly convicted of capital crimes.
As an opponent of capital punishment, I am constantly inspired by her work. It often forces me to contemplate the way this country talks about the death penalty.
Additionally, I happen to be an Army veteran, who has been working for the past decade to improve the public perception of veterans. So, I was doubly interested when I saw a headline in The New Yorker that asked “Why Are So Many Veterans on Death Row?”
The November 10 piece by Jeffrey Toobin cited the Death Penalty Information Center’s recent report that “at least 10% of the current death row — that is, over 300 inmates — are military veterans.”
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