The Birmingham News staff writer Nancy Wilstach pens an article.

RETHINK DEATH PENALTY, EX-DA SAYS

A Moratorium would allow study

“The prosecutor who put Darrell Grayson on Death Row 27 years ago now says he would like Alabama to rethink capital punishment.

The day after Grayson’s execution by lethal injection Thursday for the 1980 rape-murder of Annie Laurie Orr of Montevallo, Billy Hill said he had no doubt of Grayson’s guilt but still would like to see changes in Alabama’s laws.

“I would welcome a moratorium on the death penalty and the appointment of a study group,” Hill said. “I don’t question that the state has the right to do it. I do question whether it is a wise and humane use of our resources.”

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Darrell Grayson has been executed, but there is still time to study and eliminate the death penalty in Alabama and the entire US before others die this same state-sanctioned death. Grayson was the chairman of Project Hope To Abolish the Death Penatly, a group of “inmates and concerned citizens, working with supporters, family members, and advocates, to abolish the death penalty in Alabama and everywhere.”

While those of us who loved Darrell mourn, we must also redouble our efforts to abolish capital punishment.