Death Penalty Opponents Ask Beshear for Support

WKMS | By The Associated Press,

Whitney Jones

Published December 11, 2012 at 8:18 AM CST

Activists with the Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty have sent Governor Steve Beshear more than 1,500 postcards asking him to sign no more death warrants and get rid of the punishment. Each card calls the death penalty “a risky, arbitrary, unfair, ineffective and costly distraction from justice.”Death penalty opponents say the system is broken and that the Commonwealth should follow the lead of other states that have ended capital punishment. Kentucky has executed three people since the death penalty’s reinstatement in 1976.

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Whitney Jones

Whitney grew up listening to Car Talk to and from her family’s beach vacation each year, but it wasn’t until a friend introduced her to This American Life that radio really grabbed her attention. She is a recent graduate from Union University in Jackson, Tenn., where she studied journalism. When she’s not at WKMS, you can find her working on her backyard compost pile and garden, getting lost on her bicycle or crocheting one massive blanket.

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