Inside Opinion » military justice http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion What's on the minds of Tacoma News Tribune editorial writers Tue, 21 May 2013 03:15:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Military death penalty discredits American justice http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2012/06/20/military-death-penalty-discredits-american-justice/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2012/06/20/military-death-penalty-discredits-american-justice/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 02:46:07 +0000 TNT Editorial Board http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/?p=14339 This editorial will appear in Thursday’s print edition.

Genuine justice doesn’t play favorites with either criminals or their victims. A state, for example, that’s quick to execute murderers who kill whites, but not those who kill blacks, shouldn’t be in the business of executing anyone at all.

For many years, the U.S. military court system has been flunking the test of impartiality in handing down death sentences. As The News Tribune’s Adam Ashton documented Sunday, the military has been willing to condemn its own to death only if they kill Americans. For killing foreign noncombatants, U.S. personnel have gotten – …

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