Irreversible decision

Stanley Tookie Williams, gang co-founder and convicted murderer who later became an anti-gang activist, died by lethal injection this morning in California. I understand that what he did was wrong but it’s not a sound reason to take his life. It would have been more beneficial to our society if he was provided the opportunity to educate children, teenagers and adults about what he learned and why he became an anti-gang activist.

Wherever capital punishment is in place, crucial bounds to the conscience of a people are missing. Bounds against the criminal perversion to simply step over human life.
~ Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Kadecka (1874 - 1964)

You believe an eye for an eye until you're put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.
~ Michael Jordan on the murderers of his father James