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Mount Vernon Gazetter - Mother Condemns Death Penalty, Org aims for repeal of capital punishment |
By Ed Simmons, Jr.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
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"The death penalty just doesn’t make any
sense," said the mother who has endured for 10 years while her
30-year-old son has been incarcerated on Death Row awaiting execution.
Terri
Steinberg, of Fairfax, spoke to about 20 people at Sherwood Library on
Tuesday, Dec. 6, at a gathering held by Virginians for Alternatives to
the Death Penalty. The group pickets prisons on the nights of executions
with candles, prayers and placards bearing slogans like "I Oppose the
Death Penalty. Don’t Kill for Me." Now holding meetings across Virginia,
Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty is working to sway the
public and legislators away from support for the Death Penalty.
Steinberg,
the keynote speaker, described her son Justin Wolfe as helpful at home
and a good brother to her three younger children. He has been
imprisoned, subject to execution, since 2001.
"Why would you take
somebody," she asked, "who is helpless, locked in a box and walk them
down the hall, strap them to a gurney and pump them full of poison? How
do you explain that to your children?"
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