The Trek
Everything is for a reason, everything,
Our pain is a lesson of harsh instruction,
showing us the path to pleasure,
the road back to paradise.
We are lost children who've strayed.
Our eternal parents search for us,
shouting over storms of chaos,
striving to bring the wayward home.
By the struggle we are formed or broken;
our passage is a continuing ritual;
each spirit must travel once, moving onward
Towards kingdoms to come.
-- Stephen Wayne Anderson, 26 January 2001
Stephen Wayne Anderson was executed on January 29th, 2002 in a state sanctioned murder by the state of California.
The death penalty is wrong. It is the one sentence that years later we can not fix if we find out we made a mistake. It lowers us to the level of the criminal. Anderson's case had many problems. The family of the victim were opposed to the execution. The trial attorney who represented him has had two other death penalty cases overturned due to incompetence.
When will we grow up and decide to be better than what we are. When does the killing stop. Not under this administration. George W. Bush has supported the execution of the mentally challenged and a man who's attorney slept through most of his trial...but that's Texas justice. I would prefer to see 95 killers spend the rest of their lives in jail then to see 5 innocent people get executed. This administration would just as soon kill the 5 so they can kill the other 95...mj
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