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To the editor:
Since the recent elections, much has been written about our cultural and political polarization. This perceived division has assumed the place of conventional wisdom at this point, with discourse focusing on "Red States" and "Blue States" and with cries for unity echoing from Mr. Kerry and Mr. Bush alike.
As persons of varying political and cultural shades look for ways to work together, one issue should have us standing in solidarity - the moratorium of the death penalty.
This letter comes from North Carolina, a state with 183 Death Row inmates.
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According to the Associated Press (March 2004), District Attorney Tom Keith, stated that death sentences in North Carolina have dramatically declined because jurors are increasingly skeptical of the justice system. "We're losing the public-relations war. I'm not going to keep trying them and trying them and trying them because I'm in love with the death penalty. If we're wasting our time, we won't try them," Keith stated. "If this community doesn't want to convict people of capital murder, I'll listen to what the people say." (This information was found on the Death Penalty Information Center's website).
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