San Antonio Express-News

End death penalty

- Melvin Ingalls

There are 20 states that do not execute people today. That has been a relief to Christians in those states whose belief of “Thou shall not kill” is strong.

This nation has killed 1,491 people since 1976. Of those, 559 were killed in Texas. In 2018, the other 29 states killed 12 people. Texas killed 13. Just the other day, Texas killed the first person in 2019.

Not to say those people did not deserve to be punished for their crime, but, frankly, Christians would rather see them stay in prison the rest of their life and let God determine their sin. The fact is it also costs twothirds more to kill than to lock them up for life.

I think Texas should become the 21st state to stop killing people and let God determine the outcome. him was Nancy Pelosi rudely reading things and holding them up for everyone to see that she was not paying any attention.

I don’t care how much she hates him, she should show some respect on national TV and hold her reading material until a later time.

Obviously, she is not one of my favorites. itself a plan for the city to be carbon neutral by 2050, yet there is not one estimate of how much the proposed actions would cost. A plan without an estimated cost is a not a plan, it’s a daydream.

The cost for the actions proposed easily could be hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes and direct expenses to the residents of San Antonio. And the global temperatur­e in 2050 will be no different than if we had done nothing, because China and India’s CO2 emissions will overwhelm the rest of the world’s emissions for the next 30 years.

 ?? Melissa Phillip / Staff photograph­er ?? A reader agrees with this protester in Huntsville, saying Texas should abolish the death penalty.
Melissa Phillip / Staff photograph­er A reader agrees with this protester in Huntsville, saying Texas should abolish the death penalty.

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