Sentences with phrase «individuals on death row»

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Or, put another way, I believe the sacred personhood of an individual begins before birth and continues throughout life, and I believe that sacred personhood is worth protecting, whether it's tucked inside a womb, waiting on death row, fleeing Syria in search of a home, or playing beneath the shadow of an American drone.

More than 3,700 men and women now reside on America's 39 — one federal and 38 state — death rows; 717 individuals have been executed by lethal injection, electrocution, poison gas, hanging and firing squad since Gary Gilmore's death in 1977, and the 85 individuals put to death last year ranked the United States third in the world, behind China and Saudi Arabia.

But in reading Randolph Loney's stories of his friends on Georgia's death row we are forced to acknowledge a simple truth: those whom we have condemned to die are not «aliens,» but individuals who, in their essential humanity, are connected to all of us.