The Meaning Of Freedom: Could We Do Better If Only We Would?
Reflections On The Sinful, The Tragic, The Demonic, And The Ambiguous
She was only sixteen years old when the court sentenced her to death for her crime. She and two or three other teen-age girls had attacked and killed an old woman. They broke into her house. They kicked, stabbed, and beat her viciously and without mercy until she died. As I listened to the story, I felt a growing rage within me. How could anyone be so cruel, so insensitive, so callous, and so mean? How could they listen to her pleas for mercy and not be touched? They set upon the old woman who had done nothing to them and assaulted her body until she fell to the floor.
