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There’s nothing more awful than hearing about a young woman who is beaten, raped and murdered. When the perpetrator is apprehended, you want revenge — an “eye for an eye,” as the Torah declares. I tend to be against the death penalty, but find myself hoping that the guy who tortured and ended a beautiful life suffers horribly. When you see the grief on the face of parents of the dead, pain that you realize will never go away, you don’t want that murderer’s life spared. Another sickening tragedy occurs when a person is finally freed after losing decades behind bars for a wrongful verdict. There have been instances of someone rotting for 10, 20, or even 30 years in jail, only to be released when the relatively new technology of DNA is applied to an old case. With… read more