The energy just keeps unleashing itself inside of you, and you know this commitment in you is not going to die. God is a life force, a love force, that's strong and unrelenting. These are ways that I sense the presence of God. We are just beginning to see a thaw in a huge glacier that we've been locked into with the death penalty since 1976. At least six states have initiatives for a moratorium, most recently in Illinois.
Polls show that support is dropping.
In 1999 it dropped five percent. I think people are more aware of the eighty-seven innocent people that have now come off of Death Row, that the supposed best criminal justice system in the world has a lot of flaws in it. I think it's raised consciousness about the death penalty, and how we don't need it. I'm just happy to be a part of Fellowship of Reconciliation. I think it's very important to bring the spiritual dynamics of faith, of people of all religious persuasions, to issues of justice and human rights.