tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post1758927610859941740..comments2024-03-23T19:16:01.555-07:00Comments on Can it happen here?: Whatever it meant, this didn't make the world a better placejaninsanfranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548452260456734928noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-47177291193456666812011-09-23T15:32:50.481-07:002011-09-23T15:32:50.481-07:00Lawrence O'Donnell gave a very thoughtful comm...Lawrence O'Donnell gave a very thoughtful commentary on the death penalty following the death of Troy Davis. He mentioned something I didn't know, that Dick Gregory, longtime campaigner against the death penalty, was not in Georgia on the night Troy Davis was put to death, but rather in Texas protesting the execution of Lawrence Russell Brewer, one of the white men who brutally murdered James Byrd, an African American man, by dragging him behind a car on a bumpy road for several miles. The point being that Gregory opposes state killing in every case, and not only when the convicted person is perhaps innocent or is sympathetic. The commentary is worth a listen. Youtube link here:<br /><br />http://youtu.be/jBXQzQEhMwcSarah Lawtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00561512267227036778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-72889986647896444742011-09-22T12:44:52.516-07:002011-09-22T12:44:52.516-07:00people who think that the death penalty is right s...people who think that the death penalty is right should spend time in the company of the parents of the person to be executed waiting for the execution to happen. i was sent once to stay with the parents of a young man who was to be hanged. i am unable to describe how it was to be in the home of those parents waiting for the phone call that was to announce the killing/death of their son, all i can do is cry.tinanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-70376869702973590082011-09-22T10:16:29.392-07:002011-09-22T10:16:29.392-07:00The whole thing just makes me sad. Just like peop...The whole thing just makes me sad. Just like people cheering the fact that Perry has governed during 234 or more executions in Texas. I'll never understand capital punishment. I'll never find even a single "collateral" death in a stupid war acceptable. I don't even accept the death of soldiers defending their countries from US aggression. It all just makes me sad. The deliberate killing of someone who might have been innocent is reprehensible.Damonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16393751713576765589noreply@blogger.com