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It was quiet Friday afternoon on the three tiers of Death Row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary here. One might have naively expected some celebration, some sign that the 38 men here -- until Friday morning awaiting death in the electric chair -- might react to the morning United States Supreme Court decision holding the state's death penalty statutes unconstitutional.

 Burt Steel

Jews Against Gassing, a group that claims to represent the Jewish community, showed up on April 16 at the Louisiana State Capitol to support a Senate Bill 430 that would exclude nitrogen gas from being used for capital punishment in Louisiana.

Nitrogen is very quick and knocks a person out in under a second, unlike Zyklon B, which took up to 30 minutes sometimes to kill victims of National Socialist Germany's concentration camps during World War II.

This is just another tactic by the far left to rob victims of horrible crimes of the justice they deserve, masquerading under the guise of support from the Jewish community. After World War II, the Nazi and SS war criminals who ran the concentration camps and killed many innocent Jews, Poles and Russians were executed for their crimes against children and humanity. These Nazi war criminals had a trial and were executed to bring justice to the victims of their horrible crimes.

Evil triumphs when good people do not deliver justice to the victims of that evil.

PATRICK McCARRON

Baton Rouge

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