Posted by Kevin Bates It's worth musing on the various responses to the death penalty - some celebrated with champagne and wished him to hell, others wished for him to be spared and used as a source of information; others again are lodging an appeal against the death penalty on the basis that it will heal nothing. I wonder what I would feel like if one of my nieces or nephews had been killed in Bali - it's too easy to judge all these different responses. A significant moment on the radio this morning when a women who had lost a child in the bombing, remarked that she thought that the death penalty would appease her and heal her spirit a bit. Instead, all she flet was empty. I wonder where our sense of God is relevant in all this - there's a perspective we need in moments of great pain and anguish - maybe a deeper sense of God is a good place to start!
on August 8, 2003, 6:09 pm
What a sad moment for the people damaged by the Bali bombing as they watched yesterday that bizarre little man, Amrozi, smile his way into death row.
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