Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Kathy Clay - Little:

"In Texas, bad company can mean capital punishment"

Note:

Ms. Kathy Clay - Little is publisher of African - American Reflections, online at:

www.aareflections.com

Adapted from the original editorial in the San Antonio EXPRESS -NEWS, Monday, August 27, 2007.

"Kenneth Foster will be executed in three days.

"His execution is unique among Texas' many executions in that he murdered no one.

"Foster was driving the vehicle that Mauriceo Brown exited on a muggy August night in 1996 to shoot and kill Michael LaHood, the son of a prominent attorney in Bexar County.

"Brown was executed last summer.

"Therefore we must make Foster's situation instructive.

"The life lesson learned from his execution is one that every parent or caregiver should forcefully relate to his or her child: shun evil companions.

"Foster is being executed as much for choosing the wrong companions and not having the courage to say no when they robbed two people earlier in the night as he is for driving Brown away from the scene after LaHood was murdered... "

Some good, thoughful reading in this editorial!!

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