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The moratorium tree - a poisonous stump.

The roots of the moratorium movement are the tentacle-structured networks of lawyers, prison clergy and well meaning but naïve public who represent the condemned or the families of the killers themselves. The mud that this network thrives on consists of rotting newspaper articles, and the bodies of innocent men, women and children who’ve died at the hands of proven predators.

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The Allen Gell case:

The recent acquittal of Alan Gell demonstrates that if reasonable doubts in a case potentially exist, the system and juries are capable of making a new decision. The re-trial is the result of a careful process that already provides multiple levels of review. Three other points that death penalty foes may choose not to acknowledge are that (1) Gell was not executed, (2) he was not even scheduled for execution and that (3) no wrongful executions are being conducted in North Carolina.

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Incarceration is not always enough for some killers.

Are there any guarantees that “life without parole” will mean just that? Or that an offender’s last breath of air will be drawn behind prison bars? No, not necessarily. Nothing is “sure” or “final” in a case until “after the killer has died”. Who can say with certainty that any inmate will not cause harm to others before he dies or that the legislature in a weak fiscal moment won’t decide to release more prisoners that have already committed murder.

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