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Desmond Tutu Visits Condemned Inmate

by TChris

Archbishop Desmond Tutu visited Texas death row inmate Dominique Green today. Green believes that his life was changed by reading a book that Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tutu wrote describing his experience "as president of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, where participants in apartheid-fueled violence were encouraged to acknowledge their past and victims and their families were encouraged to forgive their attackers." Tutu opposes capital punishment.

Green's supporters, including Thomas Cahill, a historian and best-selling author who previously visited with Green and is a friend of Tutu's, believe Green's trial was marked by racism and that his court-appointed lawyer was incompetent.

Green was sentenced to death in 1993. His execution date has not been set.

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