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Hickman: Texas needs to start a dialogue on the death penalty

By "Persian Cowboy"

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Austin Musician Sarah Hickman has an Op-Ed in today's Austin-American Statesman about her opposition to the death penalty. In the early 1990s, I started correspondence with a man on death row. After a few years of writing, I went to visit him in person. What I experienced shocked me. Thinking I was going in to see an angry human being, I met an intelligent person who seemed broken. Someone who had lived an abused, unloved life had lived the only way he knew how: in survival mode. His lifestyle was far from mine, but his upbringing was like nothing I could imagine, either. Leaving the prison, I was completely struck with the thought that people do what they know. While in his early twenties, uneducated, drugged up, and jobless, he had struck out and viciously murdered an innocent woman, had spent 20 years on death row, and still had no understanding of what it meant to be "productive" or a part of society...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on July 30, 2008 (boomark / email).