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Ironic that on the subject of capital punishment this editorial demonstrates some of the blindness. While the penal system keeps Mr. Rodriguez on death row and attorneys currently engaged in evidentiary hearings to uncover improprieties of the 2006 trial that led to the sentencing, the writers seem to give more attention to the cost to taxpayers than to examining the inherent injustice of capital punishment.

If we acknowledge that God is the creator of all life and that God is love and never withdraws that love from the people God has created with worth and dignity, that means that Mr. Rodriguez and other "degenerates"(words from the editorial) like him continue to be loved by God.

In this case, a horrible crime was committed and many innocent people suffer today because of it, especially the families of Dru Sjodin and Mr. Rodriguez. Perpetrators must take responsibility for their actions, and in the case of homicide, accept a rigorous punishment imposed by the justice system. And in the instances of homicide by capital punishment, who holds the United States culpable?

The editorial concludes with the question: "What good comes from keeping Rodriguez alive?"

An immediate good among others, would be to see a decrease in the number of murders committed by the United States in the name of us, the citizens.

Sister Pat Murphy CSJ

Crookston

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