1.02.2015

On throwing away the key

Death penalty for Tsarnaev? Why Bostonians don't favor that possibility. - CSMonitor.com

"‘Massachusetts as a commonwealth has a basic commitment to civic virtues, to decency. These are deep, deep, deep in our soil,’ says the Rev. Nancy Taylor, senior minister at Boston’s historic Old South Church, which stands next to the marathon’s finish line. ‘The death penalty kind of defiles the best of what it is to be virtuous in a civic sense. It kind of starts to wreck the equation.’"

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