Brutal facts have immense power; they etched deep marks in my psyche. Those who commit such atrocities, I concluded, forfeit their own right to live. We tarnish their memory of the dead and heed needless misery on their surviving families by letting the perpetrators live.
We, the
members of Unit 1012: The VFFDP, whose group consists of murdered victims’
families and friends give our condolences to the family of Keshia Stephens and Norfolk Police Officer Stanley Reaves. Sadly, Virginia has now abolished
the death penalty in their state. We will remember the victims.
Keshia Stephens
(August 23, 1976 to January 16, 2004)
Daughter of
victim of death row inmate reacts to Virginia abolishing death penalty
By: Erin
Miller
Posted at
4:40 PM, Mar 25, 2021
and last
updated 8:01 AM, Mar 26, 2021
NORFOLK, Va.
- There aren't many photos of Keshia Stephens, and she will never have the
chance to take more.
Stephens, as
well as her brother and her 4- and 2-year-old daughters, were murdered in
Norfolk in 2004. Anthony Juniper, Stephens' ex-boyfriend, was arrested, and a
jury later sentenced him to death.
However,
unlike some 1,300 people before him, Juniper's execution date won't come. On
Wednesday, Gov. Ralph Northam signed legislation abolishing the death penalty
in Virginia. It's the 23rd state to do so and the first state in the South.
During a
press conference, Northam said, "There is no place today for the death
penalty in this Commonwealth - in the South or in this nation."
However, the
family of Keshia Stephens feels differently. Weshaya Stephens was just 6 years
old when her mother, sisters and uncle were killed by Juniper.
She said she
was with her grandmother at the time of the murder, but remembers the frantic
reactions.
Since that
day, she said her family has been torn apart and the remaining siblings have
all been separated. When she heard that Northam signed the legislation, she
said, "I was angry; I was livid; I was upset. This
man is a monster. My sisters were 2 and 4 years old, you know. What I don't
understand is why he doesn't deserve to die."
The other man
sitting on death row was also spared from execution. Thomas Porter was
originally sentenced to death for killing Norfolk Police Officer Stanley Reaves
in 2005.
Their
sentences will now be converted to life in prison without parole.
"My
mama doesn't get a chance at life without parole, so it's just not fair,"
Weshaya Stephens said. "Her kids didn't get a
chance for life without parole; life was over for them before they even got a
chance to understand what life was."
News 3 also
spoke with a juror from Juniper's capital murder trial. This individual didn't
want to be identified, but said the jurors made the best decision possible with
the evidence that was presented.
They said
they stand by their decision, but said abolishing the death penalty in Virginia
is probably for the best.
"I had
no doubt that [Juniper] was guilty, but there are so many others that have been
wrongfully convicted," they said.
Northam
touched on this point on Wednesday and said, "We can't sentence people to
that ultimate punishment knowing that the system doesn't work the same for all
people."
He reported
that since 1973, more than 170 people around the country have been released
from death row after newfound evidence supported their innocence.
Stephens, on
the other hand, said this doesn't give her family justice or closure.
"[Juniper]
doesn't care about anything and doesn't have any regard for humans, so why
should I care about him?" she said.
If the death penalty was not imposed then "wrong really has finally
totally triumphed over right and all civilised society, all we hold dear, is
the loser."
5. Virginia
is planning to abolish the death penalty. We the members are truly well aware that
if they end capital punishment, life without parole will be their next target.
Attorney Hans Bader will explain more in this column.
6a. Senators also heard from
multiple family members of fallen officers on this point. Angela Kyle said the
execution of her dad’s murderer gave her peace of mind.
“An amazing load went off my
shoulders, my nightmares stopped,” Kyle said.
Widow Michelle Dermyer called
the effort to end the death penalty a slap in the face.
“Eliminating the death penalty
cheapens murder. An executed death sentence absolutely guarantees the killer
will never kill again,” she said.
6b. Two family members of law
enforcement officers who died on duty did testify in opposition to the bill.
Their testimony also included a request that the ban not apply to people
convicted of killing a police officer.
6c. Huggins
urged any scaling back of the death penalty be done incrementally because some
crimes are more heinous than others.
"Any person who will murder
a police officer will murder any member of society and we think they ought to
be dealt with the most harshly," said Huggins.
8. Angela
Kyle, whose father, Virginia State Trooper Leo Whitt, was killed during a
traffic stop south of Petersburg in 1985, told the lawmakers she “can’t begin
to tell you what it has been like for 36 years not to have my dad, and not to
have my family know my dad, and the amazing gap that’s been left without him.” Her
father’s killer, Gregory Beaver, was arrested the night of the slaying, and quickly
confessed. When he was put to death in 1996, she told lawmakers, “an amazing
load went off, and my nightmares stopped.”
The Democrat-controlled chamber approved the
bill in a 21-17 vote that split along party lines and was seen as a key hurdle
for the measure. Advocates now expect the House version of the bill to easily
clear that chamber, and Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam has said he supports the
legislation.
We do not need psychologists to tell us the simple truth that if you
reward bad behaviour you will get more of it. We should not be surprised that
we are now engulfed in crime. The offenders have taken their cue from us.
It has been 10 years since Illinois abolished the death
penalty on March 9, 2011. It was a sad day for murder victims and their families
and a victory for murderers. As we have consistently warned: Once Capital
Punishment is abolished, the ACLU (and any Pro Murderer rights Groups) will
start abolishing prison sentences next.
We will write two articles refuting Scott Reeder’s article
on his Valentine’s Day on Death Row. The first article we will talk about why the
guilty murderers should not be allowed to live and in the second, we will talk
about the feelings of murder victims’ families.
As some of us and Scott Reeder are Christians, we will
use Bible verses and also quotes and examples of incidents that happen. We are not
attacking Reeder here and we are sure he is a nice person but we disagree with what
he wrote.
SPRINGFIELD
— I once spent Valentine’s Day on Illinois’ death row.
This
week, I couldn’t help thinking about the strangest Valentine’s experience I’ve
ever had. I spent Feb. 14, 2000, in the death row visitor’s room at the Pontiac
Correctional Center.
I
was there to interview a mentally-ill death row inmate who had become lost in
the system. His schizophrenia had incapacitated him to such a degree that he
couldn’t assist with his appeals.
RESPOND: We
believe that that Inmate was faking his mental illness to give an excuse to
escape execution. Dr
Michael Welner and the late, Dr
Thomas Szasz will agree that mental illness is used as an excuse to escape
punishment.
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render
more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations. –
Thomas Szasz
Here is a recent example, Edward
O’Neal, A self-proclaimed “devil worshipper” who has been charged with a
2016 murder is accused of killing once again. He was just 18 when he first arrested
over the 2016 murder of Ryan Roberts, whose body was discovered in the woods by
an overpass near his home with stab wounds. On November 28, 2020, he
shot Derrick Mike, his cousin’s ex-boyfriend dead. We do not believe that this recidivist killer has
mental illness, I believe that he knew what he was doing, as he committed
premeditated murder.
"The
world now understands the concept of 'desk murderer'. We know that one doesn't
need to be fanatical, sadistic, or mentally ill to murder millions; that it is
enough to be a loyal follower eager to do one's duty."
Nazi
Hunter, Simon Wiesenthal was referring to Nazi War Criminal, Adolf Eichmann,
after an Israeli
psychiatrist, who had 30 sessions with Adolf Eichmann during his pre-trial
detention, was disclosed today to have reported that the defendant was a
completely normal person. The psychiatrist examined Eichmann in an effort to
detect the sources of his behavior in the crimes for which he is under trial
here. He was quoted as saying: “By purely psychiatric
tests, Eichmann seems more normal than I am by now. “
Walid
Shoebat, a Palestinian-American
author and speaker who converted from Islam to Christianity was quoted from his
book, ‘Why
We Want to Kill You: The Jihadist Mindset and How to Defeat it’ – “Muslim terrorists are not
crazy, but they adhere to an ideology that wants to gulp up the world.”
When
making arrangements for the interview, I hadn’t thought about it being
Valentine’s Day. The realization hit me when I walked through the prison gates
and surveyed the visitor’s room.
Women
from across Illinois were there dressed in their nicest clothes, visiting their
husbands and boyfriends on that day set aside for romance.
And
make no mistake, folks, there was love in that room.
RESPOND: As Christians
ourselves, we do not object to doing Prison Ministry or visiting prisoners. We
agree that it is good to show love to our enemies and to bring the Gospel to
them. However, we must remember Jesus Christ on the Cross and what he said to
the penitent thief:
39 Now one of the
criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying, "Are you not the Messiah?
Save yourself and us." 40 The other, however, rebuking him,
said in reply, "Have you no fear of God, for you are subject to the same
condemnation? 41 And indeed, we have been condemned justly, for the
sentence we received corresponds to our crimes, but this man has done nothing
criminal." 42 Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you
come into your kingdom." 43 He replied to him, "Amen, I
say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise."
– Luke
23:39-43
Crucifixion by Hans von
Tübingen showing the good thief on the right side of Christ, and the impenitent
thief on the left side of Christ with a devil. Others portrayed are the Blessed
Virgin Mary, Saint John, and the three Marys (Mary Cleophas, Mary Salome and
Mary Magdalene).
This article by Pastor
John Piper explains that even a condemned criminal has the opportunity to
repent and accept Christ before his execution.
We were touched by the penitent thief who repented and acknowledged his
sins in front of Christ, he reminded us of Reverend
Larry Townsend’s last rite with the convicted killer, William Sallie. We
also will not forget Japanese Criminal, Tokichi
Ishii and the Hitler’s General, Wilhelm
Keitel, both converted to Christianity before they met their ends at the
gallows.
Our
society doesn’t like to talk about this. It’s far easier to vilify those a
judge and jury have ruled so worthless that they shouldn’t be allowed to live.
But
the more striking thing about the room was how ordinary the men were, their
faces could blend in at most Illinois diners — or my high school yearbook.
RESPOND: That two sentences written by Scott
Reeder does reminds us of Helen Prejean’s infamous quote:
People
are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives. – Helen Prejean
Explaining her opposition to the death penalty. As quoted in: N.Y. Times
Magazine, May 9, 1993
She was quoted in N.Y. Times
Magazine, May 9, 1993, where she explained her opposition to the death penalty.
This infamous quote was used by her to give an excuse why guilty murderers
should not be put to death. Sadly, this quote has been used by people who want
to end mass incarceration as an excuse on why criminals cannot be locked up forever.
We, the members of Unit 1012: The
VFFDP, who stand up for the rights of crime victims can prove Prejean how wrong
she is. If you notice that not one Prisoner Rights activist ever dare to
mention about recidivist murderers because it is too embarrassing for them to
talk about it.
Albert Flick was convicted of killing Kimberly Dobbie, 48, years after he murdered his wife
Take the case of Albert Flick. On
this date, August 9, 2019, Albert Flick, a 77-year-old man previously deemed
"too old to be a threat" was sentenced to life in prison on
for fatally
stabbing a woman in front of her children, four decades after he was
convicted of a nearly identical crime.
A
judge who sentenced him for assaulting another woman said in 2010 that Flick
would no longer represent a threat because of age by the time of his release in
2014. The judge disregarded the recommendation of the prosecutor and probation
officer for a longer sentence.
"At some point, Mr. Flick is going to age out of his capacity to
engage in this conduct, and incarcerating him beyond the time that he ages out
doesn't seem to me to make good sense," Crowley
said.
Keith Burley Jr., the man Charged With Kidnapping, Fatally Stabbing 8-Year-Old Boy Has Criminal History
The board decided to release Keith
Burley, Jr. from SCI — Fayette in March following an interview with him and
a review of his file. The parole board said its decision was based on the
following factors:
Burley’s participation in and completion of
prescribed institutional programs
Positive institutional behavior
A positive recommendation made by the
Department of Corrections
Burley’s demonstrated motivation for success
His acceptance of responsibility for the
offense(s) committed
Stated remorse for the offense(s) committed
Development of a parole release plan
A positive recommendation made by the trial
judge
WKBN also requested records
that were given to the parole board before it made its decision, but that
information was not provided. According to the board, that information is
confidential.
But the do-gooders among us
say we shouldn't do that, that the state shouldn't sanction "murder,"
especially of those who are deemed to be mentally incompetent. Do-gooders are
more dangerous than a sow grizzly with cubs or a coiled rattlesnake, as
do-gooders champion and sanction legalized barbarism.
The late Chuck Colson, the
founder of Prison Fellowship who was a death
penalty opponent but became a supporter said:
While
the thief on the cross found pardon in the sight of God - ‘Today you will be
with Me in Paradise’ - that pardon did not extend to eliminating the
consequences of his crime - ‘We are being justly punished, for we are receiving
what we deserve for our deeds.’ (Luke 23:39-43)". Neither God nor Jesus
nor the Holy Spirit nor the prophets nor the apostles ever spoke out against
the civil authorities’ use of executions in deserving cases - not even at the
very time of Jesus’ own execution when He pardoned the sins of the thief, who
was being crucified alongside Him. Indeed, quite the opposite. Their biblical
support for capital punishment is consistent and overwhelming. Furthermore,
Jesus never confuses the requirements of civil justice with those of either
eternal justice or personal relations.
I
shared this observation with actor Mike Farrell, who played Capt. B.J.
Hunnicutt on the old MASH series. Farrell, an opponent of the death penalty,
has spent a lot of time visiting those sentenced to death.
“You
know, Scott, these guys don’t have horns growing out of their heads,” he told
me during a phone interview.
I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are
appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing
us to stoop to the level of the least among us at his or her worst moment. –
Mike Farrell
He proves that
the death penalty opponents are against capital punishment not because they
fear putting the innocent to death, but they oppose punishing the guilty.
Innocence Issue are irrelevant to the truth intention: they are against
punishing the guilty, innocence issue is just a propaganda.
We
stand with Thomas Aquinas in supporting only putting the guilty to death.
"If a man is a danger to the community, threatening it with
disintegration by some wrongdoing of his, then his execution for the healing
and preservation of the common good is to be commended. Only the public
authority, not private persons, may licitly execute malefactors by public
judgment. Men shall be sentenced to death for crimes of irreparable harm or
which are particularly perverted."
St. Thomas Aquinas,
Summa Theologica, 11; 65-2; 66-6.
My
view on the death penalty has evolved. When I was younger, my trite philosophy
on capital punishment was: “Some people just don’t deserve to live.”
But then I met a man named Gary
Gauger. He was wrongly convicted of murdering his parents in rural McHenry
County. He served two years on Illinois’ death row before his conviction was
thrown out.
I met Gauger in 2000 when he dropped
by my office, which was then in the Illinois statehouse. He told a tale of
wrongful conviction and left me speechless. He wasn’t released on a technicality.
He was freed because someone else did the crime.
RESPOND: Well, we are happy that he was not executed
and we know the facts of the case. We make it clear here, we are also against wrongful
conviction and we are NEVER WANT ANYONE – NOT ONE to be wrongfully executed.
Gary Gauger -- Gauger confessed
to the murder of his parents. That confession was thrown out based upon the
lack of probable cause to arrest him. Gauger's ex-wife and children
filed a wrongful death suit against Gauger in the murder of his
parents. Gary's brother remains so convinced of Gary's guilt in the murders of
their parents, that he has prepared a review of the case which claims to support
Gary's guilt, even though there are now two other people jailed for the murders
and who, confessed, in detail (Gang Member Details Slaying Of Couple, Carolyn
Starks, Chicago Tribune, 3/9/1999,
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-03-09/news/9903090198_1_james-schneider-motorcycle-shop-outlaws)
The trial court erroneously imposed a death sentence. The court granted a
motion for reconsideration and vacated the sentence less than ten months later
in September 1994. The trial court found that it had not considered all the
mitigating evidence and concluded that Gauger should not be sentenced
to death. People v. Bull, 705 N.E.2d 824, 843 (Ill. 1999); Chicago Tribune
(9/23/94). Gauger served a brief time on death row. He was not
properly sentenced to death by the trial court. He should never have been sent
to death row because the trial court did not finally sentence him to be
executed. Gauger’s case is an example of how consideration of mitigating
evidence under current law results in a sentence less than death.
If
you see what Mike Farrell Jr said above, Prisoner Rights Activists are not
against any judicial punishment for fear of convicting or punishing the
innocent, they are just against punishing the guilty. Period!
There are some death penalty
opponents who changed their position on capital punishment after someone they
loved were murdered. John
Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, a former Met Police Chief, changed
his mind on the death penalty after the murder of PC Sharon
Beshenivsky.
He was quoted as saying:
Such an extreme act of
pure evil can only be met by the most extreme of responses - and that can only
be death. All my life I've been against the death penalty. I genuinely never
thought I'd say this, but I am now convinced that the monster who executed this
young woman in cold blood should, in turn, be killed as punishment for his
crime. - John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington
If the death penalty was not imposed then "wrong really has finally
totally triumphed over right and all civilised society, all we hold dear, is
the loser."
For in this case a prince and
lord must remember that according to Romans 13 [:4] he is God’s minister and
the servant of his wrath and that the sword has been given him to use against
such people. If he does not fulfil the duties of his office by punishing some
and protecting others, he commits as great a sin before God as when someone
who has not been given the sword commits murder. If he is able to punish and
does not do it—even though he would have had to kill someone or shed blood—he
becomes guilty of all the murder and evil that these people commit. For by
deliberately disregarding God’s command he permits such rascals to go about
their wicked business, even though he was able to prevent it and it was his
duty to do so. This is not a time to sleep. And there is no place for patience
or mercy. This is the time of the sword, not the day of grace.
In recent decades, Illinois sentenced
13 men to die who were factually innocent. And those are just the mistakes we
know about. Wrongful convictions are a persistent problem in our justice
system.
In the past two decades, I’ve personally
met more than 100 people convicted of murders they did not commit. Most had
spent decades behind bars before a judge determined a mistake had been made.
Courts and police departments are like any human institution: They’re prone to
making mistakes.
RESPOND: Yes, we agree that courts and police
departments do make mistakes but there is a difference between being released
on technicality and factually innocent. We also do not want the truly guilty murderers
to keep their lives. Truth is there are judicial safeguards.
"In murder cases,
prosecutors sign arrest warrants, not the cops. When cops bring their evidence
to the prosecutors to get the warrant, there is often great tension because the
detectives believe they have sufficient evidence to proceed, but the prosecutors
want more. This is a built-in safeguard in the criminal justice system,
providing an instant independent review of the case before charges are made.
This was true in the Porter case."
On this date, October 30,
2014, Alstory Simon was freed from Prison after
spending nearly 15 years behind bar after being framed by the Innocence
Project. There is a book
explaining the case and there is a documentary on it.
In a case fraught with irony, Simon's
bitterness is directed at the Medill Innocence Project, an advocacy group
dedicated to freeing innocent people. It was that group that he, and now
prosecutors, accused of using threats, trickery and false promises to get a
crack-addled Simon to say he killed two teens in a Chicago park in 1982. The
confession of Simon led to his conviction and death sentence, but it also freed
another man from death row and prompted Illinois to end capital punishment --
ultimately sparing Simon himself from execution.
“It was very hard to get along with knowing that
fact: that I was locked up in prison for something I knew I didn’t do,” said
Simon, now 64, who walked out of prison last month after the Cook County
State's Attorney vacated murder charges and blasted the tactics of the Medill
Innocence Project. “It can make you kind of mean, but as time went by I
overcame it.
“I was praying every day, asking God to shine down upon me,” he added.
After learning about the Anthony
Porter Case, We, the members of Unit 1012, NEVER and DO NOT support any
wrongful conviction, we want the guilty to be punished. However, we know that
the ACLU, uses the word, ‘innocent convicted’ not
because they fear convicting the innocent, but they just oppose convicting the
guilty.
Whether you
agree with the death penalty or not, it is a misnomer that many innocent people
have been executed in America in modern society. Instead, some people were
executed where it was discovered later that the prosecution made mistakes,
someone else came forward to dispute some of the evidence or similar. This
resulted in a “wrongful conviction,” which is not the same thing as being found
innocent.– Rachel Alexander, quoted
from her article, Innocent
People Are Rarely Executed
Whereas the shedding of
innocent blood that proponents of capital punishment are responsible for is
thus far, thankfully, only theoretical, the shedding of innocent blood for
which opponents of capital punishment are responsible is not theoretical at
all. Thanks to their opposition to the death penalty, innocent men and women have
been murdered by killers who would otherwise have been put to death. – Dennis Prager
Whereas
the shedding of innocent blood that proponents of capital punishment are
responsible for is thus far, thankfully, only theoretical, the shedding of
innocent blood for which opponents of capital punishment are responsible is not
theoretical at all. Thanks to their opposition to the death penalty, innocent
men and women have been murdered by killers who would otherwise have been put
to death.- Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager is also
spot on here. Here are examples of two recidivist killers in Illinois:
Steven Mark Pryer, left,
and Ralph Davidson were convicted of the 1982 of killings of Davidson's
parents. They were sentenced to 40 years in prison but served less than 20.
Pryer (inset) is now charged with the murder of Diann Hoagland of rural
Alexander. File/The State Journal-Register
Steven
Mark Pryer
murdered David and Mary Davidson in
Sangamon County in 1982. He was released from prison Aug. 22, 2002, after
serving nearly 20 of the 40 years imposed, according to the Illinois Department
of Corrections. On August 18, 2010, he shot and killed Diann Hoagland.
Recidivist Murderer, Scottie Thompson
Dakota C. Jones
(March 17, 1993 to August 11, 2013)
Scottie
Thompson, 42, is already a convicted murderer. But he was let out of prison
20 years early, and just months after his release, he’s accused in another
brutal murder of Dakota Jones on August 11, 2013. But because Thompson was
convicted of murder in 1989, he and other murderers are exempt from those laws.
The Illinois Parole Board allowed him to get out after serving just 24 of his
45-year sentence.
That is why guilty murderers should
not keep their lives but must die. The late Lou Lowery, a former corrections
officer at the Pontiac Correction Center, warned that letting killers keep
their lives will give them a chance to kill again.
CONCLUSION:
And Jesus said this to
Peter. Matthew 26:52, "Put your sword back in its place. For all those who
take up the sword shall perish by the sword". What was Jesus saying? If
you take that mans' life, you have to give your life. You can't use that sword
to kill somebody with impunity. You take his life, they have a right to take
your life. Jesus said all those who take up the sword are gonna die by the
sword. All who kill will themselves die. And thus did Jesus uphold the law of
capital punishment.
These are the words of Pastor John F.
MacArthur quoted in his sermon, Life
and Death in the New world. Jesus Christ supports capital punishment and he
has no problem killing guilty murderers.
This 2018 booking photo
from the Chicago Police Department shows Jason Nightengale. Nightengale was
killed Saturday night Jan. 9, 2021, in a shootout with police after killing
multiple people in a series of shootings over roughly four hours that started
on Chicago's South Side.
On January 9, 2021, Jason Nightengale was shot and
killed by Evanston Police after killing five and injuring two in a mass
shooting in Chicago
and Evanston.
We personally are very extremely satisfied that
Jason Nightengale was shot dead by the police for several reasons:
Assuming if he
was captured alive, the most he will get is more than 20 years in prison. As
LWOP will soon be abolished after the death penalty has ended, he might get
released. There is no doubt about his guilt, not even the Innocence Project can
call him innocent at all.
Even if he was never to be released. He was a very
dangerous person; he might murder an inmate or a prison guard or even escape.
And since there is no death penalty in that state, he has nothing more to lose.
It was good that he was taken out from the face of
this earth, as Ivan Ilyin said:
“In order to prevent
the irremediable consequences of a blunder or of an evil passion a man who
strives after the good must in the first instance seek mental and spiritual
means to overcome evil by good. But if he has no such means at his disposal, he
is bound to use mental or physical compulsion and prevention. ‘It is right
to push away from the brink of a precipice an absent-minded wayfarer; to snatch
the bottle of poison from an embittered suicide; to strike at the right moment
the hand of a political assassin aiming at his victim; to knock down an
incendiary in the nick of time; to drive out of a church shameless desecrators;
to make an armed attack against a crowd of soldiers raping a child’ (54).
'Resistance to evil by
force and by the sword is permissible not when it is possible, but when it is
necessary because there are no other means available’; in that case it is not
only a man’s right but his duty to enter that path even though it may lead to
the malefactor’s death. – Ivan Ilyin
‘Resistance to evil
by force and by the sword is permissible not when it is possible, but when it
is necessary because there are no other means available’; in that case it
is not only a man’s right but his duty to enter that path (195 f.) even though
it may lead to the malefactor’s death.” https://www.filosofiaesoterica.com/ilin-and-tolstoy-on-the-use-of-force/
Five people had already lost their
lives and if Nightengale was allowed to live, it will be a mockery of justice
to those victims and their families.
Left to right: Aisha Johnson, Yiran Fan, Anthony Faulkner Jr., Marta Torres and Damia
Smith
The active resistance
against the villain’s evil designs on others, and against the villain himself
is not evil, but good. And therefore it can and must be the work of a pious
love. – Ivan Ilyin
Police video shows Evanston
officers fatally shooting a man suspected of killing four people and wounding
three others during a shooting spree in Chicago and the north suburb in
January. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3ouP10N
