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Updated: 2:34 PM Jun 16, 2009
Death Penalty March
Death penalty opponents are planning a 300-mile walk around eastern North Carolina to lobby for abolition of capital punishment in the state.
Posted: 6:39 AM Jun 16, 2009 |
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Death penalty opponents are planning a 300-mile walk around eastern North Carolina to lobby for abolition of capital punishment in the state.
The group called Sojourners for Abolition and Reconciliation began walking Sunday in Raleigh on a route that will take the walkers to Wilson on Tuesday. The route includes Rocky Mount, Tarboro, Greenville, Kinston, New Bern, Jacksonville, Goldsboro and Smithfield.
The march is scheduled to end June 30 at the state Legislature.
Organizer Scott Bass said the walk is to remember murder victims, people on death row and all their families.
The march sponsors are Nazareth House and co-sponsored by People of Faith Against the Death Penalty and other groups.
Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
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Ank, seek spiritual guidance concerning your question. Until then, those in AUTHORITY has the right to fry. If the killer, did kill another.
Wanda: Groups like myself? You should re-read my comment, I think you missed my first sentence. So this Bible says thou shalt not kill in one book, then in another book it says the authority may kill a criminal. Hmm, a contradiction in the Bible, what a surprise.
When groups of this nature, decides to walk for the rights to save a convicted, DNA proven, evil sadistic killer from the electric chair it makes my skin crawls. I hope it rains. On the other hand, people who are on death row and may be innocent should have groups like this to stand up for them, but my problem is that this group wants to keep everyone who is on death row-alive. What the hell are you people thinking? Once a convicted killer said, "If I am ever released, I will kill, again." To the organizer,Scott Bass, what do you say now about saving killers from the "hot seat?" I say, "send them back to the pits of hell-fast." Scott, if you want to walk for a cause google the case about Troy Davis.
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