Death makes angels of us all.....

...and gives us wings where we had shoulders". I want to start this post using Jim Morrison's words, because they describe exactly the situation I would like to talk about.

"Convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams, the Crips gang co-founder whose case stirred a national debate about capital punishment versus the possibility of redemption, was executed Tuesday morning. Williams, 51, died at 12:35 a.m. Officials at San Quentin State Prison seemed to have trouble injecting the lethal mixture into his muscular arm. As they struggled to find a vein, Williams looked up repeatedly and appeared frustrated, shaking his head at supporters and other witnesses.
"You doing that right?" it sounded as if he asked one of the men with a needle.
After he was declared dead, his supporters shouted in unison: "The state of California just killed an innocent man," as they walked out of the chamber.
The case became the state's highest-profile execution in decades. Hollywood stars and capital punishment foes argued that Williams' sentence should be commuted to life in prison because he had made amends by writing children's books about the dangers of gangs and violence."

I feel horrified when I read about this kind ok justice from a State. People who commit crimes should and have to be punished by their society, especially when they prove to be dangerous. But my opinion is that no man has the right to take another man's life. In any case.
A few years ago I entered in touch with a guy who is presently living in the death row of a prison in Texas. He claims to be innocent but he was declared guilty of having killed two people. I was not interested in his past but in his present life, so we started an exchange of letters that eventually became a good friendship. I got to know the person, through his words and his poems. He supported me in some difficoult periods of my life and I really thought I gained a friend, regardless of his past. Tommie, that's his name, also has a web site: www.buried-alive.com. Maybe someday I will post some of his poems, to support the value of life, because I am convinced that life is worth, in any case.