But it is our responsibility to learn whether or not killing someone because they killed is really a moral thing to do.

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people’s lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

When people realize that they are safe from criminals and that those who commit capital crimes will be kept out of society for very long periods of time, then I think the tide will turn...

Well, if that is true, then are we cheating the families of the victims of the 98 percent of all murderers who are never executed out of their closure and retribution? Is the death penalty...

There are many ‘little Katrina’ disasters across the nation where the poor are ignored and are left out of society. Society deems poverty a stigma but those trapped in poverty don’t have choices, … They...