In the News ... "Lubbock group protests death penalty on night of Rodriguez’s execution"

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• Participants prayed for peace for all involved people

By Sarah Self-Walbrick, Reporter
• Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

LUBBOCK, TEXAS - “God of compassion,” read the vigil program. “You let rain fall on the just and the unjust. Expand and deepen our hearts so that we may love as you love, even those among us who have caused the greatest pain by taking life.”

The rain stopped just long enough for the Friends of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty group to hold signs with messages against execution in front of St. John’s United Methodist Church Tuesday night on University Avenue as 38-year-old Rosendo Rodriguez was set to by executed in Huntsville ...

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