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Editorial Roundup

By Steve Hall

Shortly after midnight, Indiana executed Eric Wrinkles, who had waived his appeals.  Today's Fort Wayne News-Sentinel carries the editorial, 'If punishment doesn't deter, is it still morally acceptable to use it?" Eric Wrinkles is dead, put to death by the state of Indiana earlier today. Neither Mary Winnecke nor Mae McIntire will be at peace with that death, but for vastly different reasons.Winnecke?s daughter was one of three people Wrinkles murdered July 21, 1994. She happens to be a Catholic who says she has always opposed the death penalty for religious reasons but that her daughter?s death crystallized her opposition. She expressed the hope that Wrinkles would ask God for forgiveness before he died.McIntire lost her adopted son and daughter to Wrinkles? brutality...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 11, 2009 (boomark / email).