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"A Change Of Heart On Death Penalty," is the title of Susan Campbell's must-read column in today's Hartford Courant.I remember my step-cousin Bobby as a heavy-set, fun-loving kid devoted to collecting and selling stamps and coins. He was a wheeler-dealer who probably could have been a fabulous businessman, given the right choices.We lost track of one another. I went off to college, and Bobby went off dealing drugs. For a while, he sold cocaine, and in the summer of '94, he ended up battered and stabbed in an Oklahoma ditch. Two men attacked him at his home, then chased him across the street to continue beating and stabbing him, at one point with a broken bottle.Court documents say Bobby was left to "languish and die," although he was able to rise up on one elbow and tell police the name of one of his attackers...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).