The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the end, when the deck is cast out, it is the poor who are selected to die in this country.

The important thing is that when your come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.

When you try, God is there and you get the grace you need to get you through.

Mercy is "stronger and more God-like than vengeance".

I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society, at least for a while, and there is nothing I can do about it. Maybe, in time- after how many executions? - people will come to realize the futility of randomly selecting a few people to die each year.