In the end they killed Joseph O'Dell. I wrote a letter to the Pope telling him about an experience that Joseph had had in August when he came close to death. He had watched three people go to the shower right outside that cell, put on the white jumpsuit and go into the execution chamber. One of them was his good friend. They killed my friend.
All human beings have the right to life, guilty people, too.
Most of the pro-life people I meet are pro innocent life, but they're sure not pro guilty life. The letter was delivered to him on January 22nd. This is what's going to bring us into the next millennium. It sets our agenda for the next millennium and is the source of life for the next millennium, and everybody sitting in this room today is part of that. There's part of it in every effort we make for life and the dignity of life, every effort we make for restorative justice instead of for punitive justice, every effort we make to connect people together as neighbors.