Being from a state which eliminated capital punishment years ago, I was troubled in the past week or so as the media reported, calmly and without any sense of momentousness, that someone has recently been executed and another person has just been sentenced to death after conviction of an admittedly horrendous crime. Does anyone take such decisions lightly? I've never lived in a state where the law commits legal murder. Somehow it doesn't feel right.
This is also the state where the legislature is considering legislation to establish a "state gun". Then I listen to Reverend Marlene's sermons on Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and wonder anew how we can consider ourselves to be a Christian nation.
Random Thoughts - definitely not Deep Thoughts
4 years ago
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