A fter I asked for love and compassion for Paula, within eight months I became very concerned about the other juveniles who were on death row for crimes that they had committed. And I began to ask for love and compassion for them also. I carried that a step farther and began to pray for love and compassion for all 2700 death row inmates throughout the United States. And that prayer basically was answered, too, where I do have a love for all these people. V engeance is not the answer.
Vengeance is never the answer.
Many people in our organization say that it's a discredit to our lost loved ones to say that the life of another person would ever repay the life of the loved one we lost. H aving compassion for Paula Cooper did more for me than it did for her. Helping Paula Cooper did more for me than it did for her. That's the way that forgiveness is. There's no way a murderer can make right in any significant sense what they've done.