lundi, novembre 21, 2005

redemption

Can a person change?

Can someone who (in his own words) did monstrous things in his past do more good for society alive than dead?

Today's Morning Edition story on Tookie Williams has me churning on these questions.
Crips co-founder Tookie Williams faces execution in California on Dec. 13 unless the governor grants him clemency. Williams, convicted of four murders, has become a noted anti-gang crusader, writer of children's books, and a Nobel Prize nominee while in prison at San Quentin.

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