[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by SKEEphistAKAte
I am not against the death penalty. However, studies show that death sentences are disproportionately handed to minorities as opposed to whites. But in this particular case, I feel that he has what is coming to him. Yeah, he is supposedly "reformed" but don't many of the people in jail claim to have found religion?
Further, think about the monster that this man created. Think about all of the lives, especially the innocent lives, that have been taken as a result of the gang this man founded. Gangs have become a major killer in the African American community, largely as a result of the gang that he created and the glorification of gang life in media or whathaveyou. The black people- gang memebers and innocent people- who have died as a result of the organization he created did not have their lives spared- why should he? Yeah, he has written children's books and vowed to be an upstanding human being, but who know what the people who've died as a result of his gang would have done with their lives- who knows what kind of leaders they would have become and how they would have uplifted the black community.
If there was a former slavemaster on death row, claiming that he found god and is reformed, begging for clemency black people would be up in arms. Here we have a man who is directly or indirectly responsible for taking the lives of so many of our people and for destroying so many of our familes and here we are begging for his life to be spared...I just can't get with that.

An excellent point. Gang behavior has absolutely eroded a great part of our community, in particular rendering young men absolutely unfit for marriage and family formation.