This year I will visit prisoners in the USA. It’s the first time after I failed twelf years ago when my girlfriend, who first promissed so, refused to take me there. However my penfriend from that time is still alive, he doesn’t want to meet anymore. After years I forgave my girlfriend, but however mentally ill, being on DR, I know I will see him in heaven. I am tired of all I can not change and all we do, it seems to be in vain for those being executed.
How can some States abolish the DP and others do not. So it’s not the LAW but what people think/feel about crime. This is what happened to Jesus: not guilty, but the system was in favor of his enemies. Now I have some more on DR and they too hope I will do something so it will stop. I can’t and I know it is wrong and try not to hate people who keep this system going. I like some americans, but a lot I do not and I should. So I have to pray with you. Thanks for being there with all the human right fighters. Elizabeth
A year ago, you were kind enough to write some lines in response to an entry I’d sent about Jimmy Mizen, murdered at the tragically early age of 16 in a London bakers’ shop. Since then, Jimmy’s parents, Barry and Margaret Mizen, have invested a lot of time and effort in helping to people to realise that violent solutions are never a way forward, and a short account of what they’re doing appears on this link: http://www.jimmymizen.org/awareness-project
Last month, a service was held in Westminster Cathedral entitled “Building a legacy of peace”, for all victims of violence http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8670994.stm
I hope that one day, you’ll meet with this remarkable couple. I look forward to reading your forthcoming book, and I know it’ll be stimulating!
I know it’s been a while since you posted this, but this made me wonder just which system is less inhumane. On the one hand, in Japan, the loved ones of the condemned aren’t even given a chance for a final goodbye. On the other hand, the condemned themselves do not have to sit in their cells for months, counting down the days, hours and minutes until their deaths.
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This year I will visit prisoners in the USA. It’s the first time after I failed twelf years ago when my girlfriend, who first promissed so, refused to take me there. However my penfriend from that time is still alive, he doesn’t want to meet anymore. After years I forgave my girlfriend, but however mentally ill, being on DR, I know I will see him in heaven. I am tired of all I can not change and all we do, it seems to be in vain for those being executed.
How can some States abolish the DP and others do not. So it’s not the LAW but what people think/feel about crime. This is what happened to Jesus: not guilty, but the system was in favor of his enemies. Now I have some more on DR and they too hope I will do something so it will stop. I can’t and I know it is wrong and try not to hate people who keep this system going. I like some americans, but a lot I do not and I should. So I have to pray with you. Thanks for being there with all the human right fighters. Elizabeth
Dear Sister Helen,
A year ago, you were kind enough to write some lines in response to an entry I’d sent about Jimmy Mizen, murdered at the tragically early age of 16 in a London bakers’ shop. Since then, Jimmy’s parents, Barry and Margaret Mizen, have invested a lot of time and effort in helping to people to realise that violent solutions are never a way forward, and a short account of what they’re doing appears on this link: http://www.jimmymizen.org/awareness-project
Last month, a service was held in Westminster Cathedral entitled “Building a legacy of peace”, for all victims of violence http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8670994.stm
I hope that one day, you’ll meet with this remarkable couple. I look forward to reading your forthcoming book, and I know it’ll be stimulating!
Peace and grace,
Nigel Baldwin
Portsmouth
UK
I know it’s been a while since you posted this, but this made me wonder just which system is less inhumane. On the one hand, in Japan, the loved ones of the condemned aren’t even given a chance for a final goodbye. On the other hand, the condemned themselves do not have to sit in their cells for months, counting down the days, hours and minutes until their deaths.