By Rachel Gross
Abubuwan da gwamnatin tarayya ta yi a makon da ya gabata abin takaici ne a matakai da dama. Menene dalilan kawo karshen dakatarwar shekaru 17 na hukuncin kisa na tarayya? Gwamnatin tarayya ta zartar da hukuncin kisa kan wasu fursunoni biyu da aka yanke wa hukuncin kisa a wannan makon: Daniel Lee a ranar 13 ga Yuli da Wesley Purkey a ranar 16 ga Yuli.
Musamman a lokacin da goyon baya ga hukuncin kisa a Amurka ya kasance mafi ƙanƙanta a cikin shekaru 45, wannan ba wani abu ba ne illa ƙoƙari na kuskure don yin kira ga abin da a baya ya kasance sanannen ra'ayi: kasancewa "tauri kan aikata laifuka."
Wani kuskuren da aka sani shine cewa yin amfani da hukuncin kisa ana yin shi ne don kare dangin da aka kashe. Hasali ma, kisan da aka yi wa Daniel Lee, mahaifiyar wanda aka kashen ne ta nuna rashin amincewa da shi, wanda a dalilin addininta na Kirista, ta roki Shugaba Trump da ya dakatar da aiwatar da hukuncin.
Rikicin da ya cika sa'o'i na karshe kafin zartar da hukuncin kisa a wannan makon na nuni da irin ba'a da son zuciya na hukuncin kisa. Yayin da kotuna da alkalai suka yi ta kai-da-kawo game da rayuwar daidaikun mutane, duk wani kamanni na mutunta rayuwa ya lalace. A cewar lauyoyinsa, Mista Lee ya makale ne a gidan yari na tsawon sa'o'i hudu na karshe na rayuwarsa, yayin da kalubalen shari'a ke gudana. Wesley Purkey ya sha fama da tabin hankali da tabin hankali, wanda hakan ya sa mutane da yawa suna tambayar sanin abin da ke faruwa da shi.
Maganar Church of the Brothers’s 1987 “Hukuncin Mutuwa” ya ce bangaskiyarmu tana kai mu ga “fahimtar nufin Allah a gare mu wanda ke ɗaukaka tsarkakar ran ɗan adam da mutuntaka” (ka sami bayanin a nan. www.brethren.org/ac/statements/1987deathpenalty.html ).
Mu bayar da shawarar cewa gwamnatin tarayya da na jihohi su daina amfani da wannan dabi'a ta rashin da'a.
- Rachel Gross darekta ce na Shirin Tallafin Row na Mutuwa, aikin Cocin ’yan’uwa da ke haɗa abokanan alƙalami na sa kai da mutanen da ke kan layin mutuwa. Don ƙarin bayani game da DRSP je zuwa www.brethren.org/drsp .
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