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Texas Needs to Start a Dialogue on the Death Penalty

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That's the title of an OpEd in today's Austin American-Statesman by local singer-songwriter Sara Hickman. She discusses the genesis of her 12 city concert tour in cooperation with the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. LINKAs a society, without a doubt, we can agree that murdering a fellow human being is a horrendous act. It stains the perpetrator, or even an entire country, for life, for all time. So, here in Texas, we have the death penalty to terminate the life of the guilty who have taken a life. But how does killing anyone, whether someone is in a crazed state who murders or a state sanctioned killing occurs, ever solve anything? Murdered, or put to death, left behind are grieving family members, children without parents, loved ones and friends all caught in the never ending questions of, "Why? What was solved? Will this heartache ever end?" And what about those we execute who are innocent? The greatest example, here, is Jesus Christ...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 30, 2008 (boomark / email).