Congratulations, Mr. Reagan,
Tomorrow you and the esteemed Governor Riley will have the immense pleasure of turning one irreparably fractured family into two. I can see the logic behind your decision: if Candace Brown's family has to suffer, then it's only natural for Michael Land's family to be hurt as well. No, none of them had anything to do with the crime, but surely they deserve to be punished anyway. Why have just one mother lose her child when we could have two innocent women mourning their children for the rest of their lives? I'm sure that's what Jesus would have wanted.
No, wait... murder is a sin, isn't it? I seem to recall hearing that somewhere. Although, I suppose it's not murder if you're sitting behind a desk encouraging a death sentence and not pulling a trigger yourself, or depressing the plunger on a syringe. And if the laws of Alabama say you can kill someone, well, surely God will agree, right? After all, sentencing a man to death does resurrect the victim and return her to her family... oh, no, that's not quite right, is it?
I sincerely hope you enjoy sitting down to dinner tonight knowing that you have inflicted pain on people who don't deserve it and accomplished nothing else in the process. When you go to church Sunday morning perhaps you can ask your pastor or priest to review that whole "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place to wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, said the Lord" thing with you, since you seem to have been asleep for that part.
Have a good evening, Mr. Reagan. And sweet dreams.
--Kristyn Sherman Brown
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