Phone message for the Governor

30th Jul 2010

I just called and asked the Governor’s telephone answerer
to give Governor Riley this message:
 
“One of the greatest decisions you can make as you prepare
to leave office is to declare a moratorium on the death penalty.
Executions are murder. So many persons who commit murder
were under the influence of drugs or alcohol - or are persons
with other disabling weaknesses when the murder took place.
Our reputation for executions is another reason we are viewed
in the country as a state where we don’t know what we’re doing”.
 
John Wright