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Death Row Warden Back as Abolitionist Priest

For some people, there's nothing like personal involvement in administering capital punishment to make them start opposing it. Dennis O'Neill was a warden at two Florida death row prisons for many years, during which time he helped carry out over a dozen executions. The experience so scarred him that he quit his correctional career, got ordained as an Episcopalian priest, and now preaches against the death penalty - from the pulpit of a church in one of the prison towns where he used to oversee death row. Maybe he'll start a support group with Bill Wiseman, the man who invented lethal injection only to later also become an anti-death penalty priest.






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I am a mother of a death row inmate in florida, I want everyone too know that his family too is on death row, Im told that I live in the bible belt of the US! the only godly person I have met since my son was put on death row, comes from the victims family!!(if you can believe that one)It surprised me too.since the day he was condemd, Ive met soooo many hateful people that claim too be christians, how can you go too Gods house on sunday and say such things as you are leaving?!!!!! Death row is the sadest place Ive ever been, and I have seen a lot of sadness in my life(I thought)I believe there are a lot of people on death row that dont belong there, before our upstanding judicial system here in florida would even consider talking to a few people I was screaming about, they rapped the mother of the condemed though the mud! was it cheaper, I often wondered how much money they saved not investagating every hole posible before sending a young boy too death row!!! if this was your family memeber, wouldnt you want every hole turned upside down? and why is florida court system allowed too keep religous symbols out of the court room? while having you put the hand on the BOOK of GOD!!!

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