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Victims families speak out against the death penalty

By "Persian Cowboy"

The following is a Dallas Morning News guest blog post by MVFHR's Susannah Sheffer about the 4th World Congress Against the Death Penalty. Robert Curley On October 1, 1997 my 10-year-old son Jeffrey was kidnapped and murdered from our neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is right outside Boston. One of the men who murdered him was a member of a group that advocates sex between men and children. It's called NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association. The two men lured Jeffrey into their car by promising to get him a new bicycle. After Jeffrey was murdered, you can imagine the pain and the anger that my family and I felt. For a while I wondered if the pain would destroy me - that's how bad it was. I had never given much thought to the death penalty one way or the other...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on March 02, 2010 (boomark / email).