{"id":2611,"date":"2016-11-02T12:02:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T19:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/?p=2611"},"modified":"2018-04-02T19:07:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T02:07:10","slug":"death-penalty-abolitionist-mike-farrell-endorses-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/death-penalty-abolitionist-mike-farrell-endorses-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Penalty Abolitionist Mike Farrell Endorses Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"graphic\"\"farrell\"L<\/span>ast night, Tuesday, November 1, 2016, I engaged a death penalty debate on KGO 810 AM radio with famed death penalty abolitionist Mike Farrell<\/a>. Mr. Farrell is the author of California\u2019s Proposition 62<\/a>, which would retroactively replace the death penalty with a sentence of life without the possibility of parole. It was a heated discussion that took a remarkable turn near the end.<\/p>\n

I had made the point that the last person executed in California, Clarence Ray Allen<\/a>, was serving Mr. Farrell\u2019s preferred sentence of life without parole when he organized the revenge killing of three people he felt had betrayed him and landed him in prison. In 2006, Allen was executed for those murders and, as I pointed out, he is no longer a threat to society.<\/p>\n

Mr. Farrell\u2019s response? \u201cThere are degrees of incarceration and if somebody is deemed, or demonstrated, or thought to be a danger to the rest of the people, that person can be put in solitary confinement, that person can be confined in a way that he or she has no human contact. We have the capacity to simply maroon human beings.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

According to multiple sources, \u201cSolitary confinement is considered to be a form of\u00a0psychological torture\u00a0with measurable long-term physiological effects when the period of confinement is longer than a few weeks or is continued indefinitely.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

I believe that all death row inmates meet Mr. Farrell\u2019s standard of \u201csomebody (who) is deemed, or demonstrated, or thought to be a danger to the rest of the people.\u201d After all, isn\u2019t that why they are on death row in the first place?<\/p>\n

Going into the debate I knew that Mr. Farrell would wrap himself in a cloak of moral superiority for working so diligently to save the lives of human beings. However, I never, in my wildest imagination, thought that cloak would slip to such a degree that he would reveal an affinity for torture. I may be an unflinching supporter of the death penalty, and I know that in the eyes of many I am considered unfeeling, without moral compass, or worse. Be that as it may, at least I haven\u2019t revealed myself, as I believe Mr. Farrell has, to be a sadist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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