Harold Lopez
retired
“I don’t like the death penalty. We’re not supposed to kill each other! Spiritual texts tells us that we’re not supposed to do that, but I think it’s a natural idea to.”
Sheehan Bailey-Schmidt
socialist
“They shouldn’t use it. There should be another manner of consequence.”
Mary Thielscher
educator
“I’m against it. One of the reasons is this book I just read called Just Mercy. It totally changed my opinion on it. Also I just feel that it’s a system that doesn’t necessarily work.”
Tonie Peters
retired
“I don’t agree with it. Why do the same thing? When we do that, it isn’t making it better. … They were raised wrong.”
This article appears in Dec 22-29, 2016.