Shame on The Columbian for the Feb. 12 editorial “Inslee errs on death penalty: Washington governor’s moratorium on executions an affront to state’s residents.”
No law is absolutely black or white. There are exceptions to every rule. Those exceptions cause the evolutionary changes to the laws over time.
A bad law starts out fairly black or white, but over time and the evolution of smart, educated people’s critical-thinking skills, the law moves into the shade of grey and eventually gets far enough over to the opposite side that the law is changed or eliminated.
Because of space constraints, I will use one example: slavery. At one time slavery was legal, and laws supported it. Over a long period of time, a horribly bloody war, a splitting in half of our nation and a very long healing period, we as a nation mostly agreed (a few white supremacists and rednecks will disagree) that slavery was and is wrong.
