Q9. How does the victim's family feel about death penalty?

Death penalty can bring relief to victim's family. Several friends and relatives of a woman and two children who were stabbed to death on Thanksgiving Day in 2010 were in a  relief.

 "I've watched too many families go through this to make me believe the system will ever work," said Kathy Garcia, whose nephew was murdered 20 years ago. She continued, "The death penalty divides families at the very time they need each other the most." Other family members of murdered victims agreed, suggesting that the money spent on the death penalty could be better used in providing counseling and other support to survivors. Vicki Schieber, whose daughter was murdered in Philadelphia in 1998, told the committee that years of death penalty appeals are excruciating to families. "The system is just too painful," she said.



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・The Columbus Dispatch. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/05/16/measure-of-relief.html
・Death penalty information center. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-voices-victims-families