If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.

Most people do not reflect deeply on the death penalty, and if you suffer doubts, you are not alone,

Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time--weeks, months, years, decades even.

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.