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Article: Executing justice. (Second Thoughts on the Death Penalty).(United States)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- February 13, 2002
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IN THE DEATH CHAMBER at San Quentin just after midnight on January 28, a confessed killer was executed by lethal injection. He was convicted two decades ago for the murder of an 81-year-old woman during a botched burglary in which he cooked noodles in her kitchen as she died. California Governor Gray Davis, a liberal Democrat and steadfast backer of capital punishment, denied clemency in the case--as he had for two other death row inmates in file past three years.
Several dozen protesters outside San Quentin held signs, "Don't kill for me." Vigils elsewhere included one by the Los Angeles Episcopal Diocese's Task Force Against Capital Punishment, which plans an ...