Against death penalty Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

“Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.” quote by Martin Luther King, Jr — Download Open image

“Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.”

Martin Luther King, Jr

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