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Word from Grace Street: Children of God
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In today's Word from Grace Street, Wallace+ writes about the death penalty, spurred by a recent article from the author of an upcoming book on the subject:
Over the weekend, I read "Five Myths About the Death Penalty," a Washington Post piece by David Garland, an NYU professor of law, whose book Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition is about to be published.
I didn't know that France was still using the guillotine when I was older than Nelson is now. Nor did I realize that, in other Western countries, majorities of the populations still favor the death penalty. And, while I knew that most executions in the U.S. take place in the South, I'm not sure I would have guessed eighty percent.
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An eye for eye makes the whole world blind.
So said Gandhi.
And I can only see that he was right.
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