In a last act of inverted morality, Oregon's outgoing governor commutes death sentences for criminals, but not babies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Physician-assisted suicide is legal, which means lawmakers and a governor (the "state" personified) took action, and involved themself in the "business of executing people".
41% : Oregon is (currently) one of the handful of states in the country that allows abortion through all the months of pregnancy, and for any reason.
41% : Execution is final, there is no undoing it, and when it's a punishment leveled against an innocent person, it is perhaps the most egregious injustice in a "civilized" society.
39% : If the death penalty is immoral, then the only consistent approach is that it's always immoral, or, if it's immoral when the recipient is guilty of a heinous crime, then it must be immoral if the person is blameless.
38% : Her last statement, again, eviscerates her conflicting beliefs, as she claims the death penalty is "immoral."
37% : Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral.
28% : In an article published today at The National Review: Oregon governor Kate Brown said Tuesday that the state's 17 death-row inmates will be spared execution and will instead have their sentences downgraded to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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