Does the case of Amanda Knox, acquitted yesterday in connection with the rape and murder of her British roommate, confirm once again the barbarity and injustice of the American death penalty? Asserting that in the U.S., people are put to death on the basis of evidence at least as flimsy as that against Knox, La Repubblica columnist Vittorio Zucconi writes that the Knox case is yet one more reason for the U.S. to end state-sanctioned punishment of death.
For La Repubblica, Vittorio Zucconi writes in part:
It is both delightful and instructive to witness America’s joy and indignation over first the judicial miscarriage and then the acquittal of Amanda Knox. It’s too bad that in America, such indignation isn’t triggered when someone convicted at a trial based on fragile circumstantial evidence or testimony that is later recanted is put to death, having been defended by fourth-tier lawyers rather than by formidable attorneys like Giulia Bongiorno.
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