It'll likely cost him politically, but the death penalty IS a complete waste of money. Not to mention innocent people have lost their lives because of lousy counsel or crooked police/prosecutors or lying witnesses.
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The moratorium will last as long as Kitz is in office.
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The governor, a physician who served two previous terms, from 1995 to 2003, noted that he had allowed the two earlier executions to go forward under his watch.
“They were the most agonizing and difficult decisions I have made as governor and I have revisited and questioned them over and over again during the past 14 years,” Governor Kitzhaber said. “I do not believe that those executions made us safer; certainly I don’t believe they made us more noble as a society. And I simply cannot participate once again in something I believe to be morally wrong.”
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