In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
The death penalty isn’t at the top of voters concerns like it was thirty years ago, but the overarching question of whether we should have the death penalty or not today reveals a still standing stark division between the states. Let us look back when the question of whether the death penalty is a good thing or not was debated by William F. Buckley, Jr., Leon Botstein, Ira Glasser, Bryan Stevenson, Ed Koch, Stephen B. Bright, Walter Berns, and Susan Boleyn, as moderated by Michael E. Kinsley.
Until next Friday.
