Execution Remembrance
January 16th, 2015 by Mike Vasilinda
About a dozen people gathered today in the rotunda of the State Capitol to pray for the victims of and family of Johnny Shane Kormendy who was executed last night. Kormondy was the ring leader of a home invasion gone wrong. Luthern Pastor Marta Messick lead the ceremony, saying that a growing number of people are opposing executions.
“We are hopeful and persistent. I think there is a ground swell, an increasing groundswell of awareness of the wrongness of this law. , and it’;s execution so to speak in the state. We’re also concerned about the forgotten victims of the death penalty which are those who are the family members of the person put to death by the state.”
Yesterday’s execution saw more than 20 protests or prayer vigils from one end of the state to the other. Far more than recent executions in Florida.
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