A Letter to My Murderer by Rev. Nate Walker
Sep 30th, 2008 by natewalker
Will Unitarian Universalists advocate for the death penalty of David Adkisson, the gunman who open-fired in the sanctuary of our sister congregation in Knoxville, TN? Rev. Nate will explore this question, and the ethics of the death penalty, in the context of a letter he will read to his imagined murderer – a hypothetical statement that can serve as an advance-directive, should Rev. Nate ever be a victim of manslaughter. If others also crafted such statements, would these documents serve help those who were left behind? Would it aid the government by legally pledging the state to honor the wishes of killed and thereby finding a social alternative to capital punishment?
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