These are not areas that I can impact from the comfort of my home and are at sufficient distance from my reality that becoming an activist is not an option. I don't tend to worry about the spotted owl, the depletion of the ozone, or the deforestation in the Amazon. I would consider myself an average American. It's happened again. Back in 1997, two teens killed two pizza deliverymen after ordering food to an abandoned house in Franklin, New Jersey.
Second chances are the American way.
If you fall off a horse, get back on. Everyone loves a comeback. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Justice Blackmun, who supported the death penalty early in his career, later realized this statute's inherent injustice, mainly its sanctioned use as a tool of oppression and racism. And, just last year, the American Bar Association said that it could not endorse the death penalty and called for a moratorium on the statute.