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Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die?
Posted: 11/01/2012 10:56 am
When the Bible commands us “Justice, justice shall you pursue,” the repetition is to teach that not only we must have just ends, our means to those ends must be equally just.
Our commitment to that core teaching will be tested next month by our community’s response to Proposition 34, which would replace California’s death penalty with life in prison without parole, save $130 million each year, devote $30 millon per year for three years to help solve unsolved murders and rapes and require those convicted of murder to devote prison earnings to pay restitution to the…
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