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We Should Be Devoted to Ending Injustice, Not Ending More Lives

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That's the title of an OpEd in today's San Jose Mercury News by Naomi White and Derrel Myers, whose son was a murder victim.  LINK Twelve years ago, our 23-year-old son was murdered. Today, we are attending a national gathering with other family members of murder victims working to end a different kind of killing: the death penalty. We can think of no better way to honor our son's life. On the evening of Jan. 19, 1996, our only child, Joshua "JoJo" White, was driving home from work at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School in San Francisco where he counseled and tutored troubled adolescents. At 16th and Carolina streets, an agitated youth confronted JoJo and his three friends. JoJo and his friends tried to reassure the young man, but he pulled a gun from his coat and fired into the car...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 18, 2008 (boomark / email).