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To: Solon who wrote (3686)	3/20/2002 1:19:29 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) of 21057

I really like Ryan's statement. It had something to do with turning my position to anti-death penalty. "I cannot support a system which, in its administration, has proven so fraught with error and has come so close to the ultimate nightmare, the state's taking of innocent life... Until I can be sure that everyone sentenced to death in Illinois is truly guilty, until I can be sure with moral certainty that no innocent man or woman is facing a lethal injection, no one will meet that fate." However the rest of the statistics are fairly meaningless to me. I expect to die. I consider that a positive outcome to having lived. I hope and pray that I will make it to that eventuality able to claim a live that was worth living. I am sad for persons like Andrea Yates who must go on living a life that is so irreparably traumatized. When you mention that there are, "Currently, about 3,565 prisoners reside on death row." ....It becomes painfully obvious that most of these people are probably not in prison for first time offenses. Which means that as a group they represent the perpetration of many thousands of heinous crimes. Heinous crimes often leave the lives of the victims in a state of irreconsilable distress. Most of the prisoners themselves have no way to reconsile their crimes with the rest of us in society. There is no comfort in the fact that we must suffer one another's existence, knowing that heinous acts will continue to be wrought against our loved ones until leaving the planet. 600 executions since 1976 does not bother me at all. In fact if we could carry out 3565 executions in March, I would rest easily knowing that there was some resolution for the history of this heinous group. I do not care what the racial or age demographics are either. The only cause I have for hesitation is Ryan's comment, which I am totally in agreement with.

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