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From Stowsentry.com
"We need certainty, we need healing," Chris Stout [murder victim family member] told the House's criminal justice committee. "We need to not be hauled into court again and again for 27 years and ... traumatized over and over.
"I need this system to stop, period," he added. "I need the death penalty to be over and I need people to listen to me when I say, do not do this to me or my family. Don't kill John David Stumpf because of me. We've been through enough, and we want it to end. All this system does is create more victims...." [italics mine]
"We need certainty, we need healing," Chris Stout [murder victim family member] told the House's criminal justice committee. "We need to not be hauled into court again and again for 27 years and ... traumatized over and over.
"I need this system to stop, period," he added. "I need the death penalty to be over and I need people to listen to me when I say, do not do this to me or my family. Don't kill John David Stumpf because of me. We've been through enough, and we want it to end. All this system does is create more victims...." [italics mine]
