On last night's Countdown, Keith Olbermann chatted with The Nation associate editor (and former AlterNet editor) Liliana Segura about the death penalty in the wake of Troy Davis' execution. Segura, a longtime anti-death penalty advocate, made some great points about our nation's capital punishment system. For instance, when asked about the "Hitler exception" -- whether we should support the death penalty for especially dangerous people like Osama bin Laden and Adolph Hitler -- Segura noted, "The reality is that the system we have is not a system that actually executes the worst of the worst." Indeed; instead, we execute the Troy Davises of the world.
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