tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187822.post111029716804787384..comments2023-10-16T12:15:33.735-04:00Comments on Abolish the Death Penalty: People change.abe@abolition.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17673303302445527734noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187822.post-1111181810186967402005-03-18T16:36:00.000-05:002005-03-18T16:36:00.000-05:00Don Wallace was our friend. Not when he was a youn...Don Wallace was our friend. Not when he was a young drug addicted kid, but for the past 20 years he has written to my husband. Often sending artwork for birthdays, never forgetting a holiday, always insightful about life and spiritual matters. From his early 20's he grew up in prison, and he changed as almost all kids do. <BR/><BR/>It's easy to see that Don was a drug addict and that he committed a horrible crime. I remember the 1970's and there were drugs everywhere. People experimented with everything back then. I don't know what stroke of luck kept some of us from trying the wrong one, or falling in with the wrong influential crowd. I don't know why it didn't happen to me, yet happened to others. It seems to me in retrospect that it could have happened to me too, when I was young and impressionable. I would like to think that somehow "I" would have known better and "I" would have made better choices...but I can't say that really. I was just as dumb as any other person when I was young, and I can't really say that it wasn't but a stroke of luck that I ended up an upstanding member of the community, but Don ended up into drugs and committed an awful crime that was the result of a drug haze, though it was horrific. <BR/><BR/>Don was killed in my name; he was killed in your name. All these years later, I'm sure it brought no closure to anyone, I'm sure there was no feeling of happiness. <BR/><BR/>They strapped him down. He looked through the blinds at the "witnesses" and said he hoped it brought them closure and peace. Then the State put a needle in his arm and killed him with complete premeditation, and complete malice of forethought, and called murder justice...but what justice is that?<BR/><BR/>May God have more mercy on Don Wallace soul than the people of this country had. When I die and go to meet my maker, at least I will be able to say that I objected, that I spoke out, that I did not wish for any death, Wallace's victims death or Don's death.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187822.post-1110911219380929212005-03-15T13:26:00.000-05:002005-03-15T13:26:00.000-05:00I agree...let's do away with capital punishment an...I agree...let's do away with capital punishment and replace it with medical experimentation. after all, being killed because you did something horrible (like rape a kid or two, multiple murders, eating people, etc, etc...) is pretty easy to deal with. A quick injection, painless of course, and you're on your way to.......wherever dead dirtbags go. But, if you knew that raping a child might get you and your testicles a date with a set of jumper cables, you might think twice. Great idea!! No more death row. It's way too easy for the dirtbags.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com