I’ve gotten a couple of responses to my post about the last execution in Maryland and it suprises me that people believe that somehow it is okay to have the same respect for a human life that the murderer had for the person whose life he or she snuffed out. How can that be? How can it be a realistic argument that since heinous murdering fiend didn’t have respect for human life, I’m not going to have respect for his. Doesn’t that just put the two of you on the same playing field?

When I started doing this work, I thought “wow, how could someone do something like (fill in the details of hideous crime). I just don’t understand it.” And, one day, a very wise attorney said “Be greatful you don’t understand. If you did, you would be like him.” So, I think to myself that its good that I don’t get why people think its okay to kill other people, in front of their grandchildren, or in an executioners chambers. It’s good for me that I don’t understand because it is what separates me from them. From the killers.

But, that’s just me.

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