Such flip comments in the face of murder make one tremble. In May, Attorney General Janet Reno announced that Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski could be tried under the federal death penalty law. With this announcement, one could feel the agony of Kaczynski's brother, David, who had feared that if he gave up his brother to officials they would choose to kill him. The grace with which the Kaczynski family dealt with what must have been the most difficult decision of their lives deserved more than Reno's political expedience. Most of you have probably followed the news of the trial and the June death sentence of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 adults and children.
Hate is exactly what it is.
His death will not solve anything. It's not going to bring my daughter back. It's not going to bring any peace. Mr. Welch came to that position six months after his daughter's death-and after much agonizing. He remembered a conversation he had with his daughter a few years earlier when they had disagreed on capital punishment.