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Selatius

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Tue Oct-24-06 03:01 PM
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28. My opposition to the death penalty is rooted in my principles

Edited on Tue Oct-24-06 03:03 PM by Selatius

Who am I to determine who gets to live and who gets to die? Is this not the same determination the murderer had taken when he killed when one strips away the veneer of justice to reveal revenge? It is not for me to deal death. I'm just a man, not a god.

I don't believe in revenge. I don't believe in an "eye for an eye." I believe in forgiveness and atonement, but I don't believe in forgetting what happened either.

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