... that very few people were ever going to be allowed to witness what she had witnessed, and from that moment she felt her mission was born. She had been a witness and so must tell the story. I must be the one to take people on the spiritual journey I had taken so they could be brought face to face with government killing. In taking people on this journey from vengeance to compassion, I am careful to bring them over to both sides of the issue: the suffering of the victims' family and their search for healing on one side, and the suffering of the condemned and his or her family on the other. I compare the two sides of the death penalty to the two arms on the cross, on which Jesus was crucified, and on this cruciform template I wrote Dead Man Walking. (Claretian) Capital Punishment is ...

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