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Nevadans guilty of murder with execution of Moran

Friday, April 5, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.

Richard Moran was convicted of murder. Beginning at 12:01 a.m. on March 30, Gov. Bob Miller and Nevada are also guilty of murder, the intent of which is premeditated revenge.

When I was a young child (in the sacred 1950s), my mother and just about every other adult I knew told my friends and me that two wrongs don't make a right.

I guess we continue to believe this when it's homies in the hood wreaking revenge -- or Palestinians and Israelis in Israel, or Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, or Serbs, Croatians and Muslims in Bosnia -- but not when the state is involved.

We call state-sanctioned revenge justice.

Richard Moran was convicted of a heinous crime, murder. With the execution of Richard Moran, we in Nevada are guilty of that same crime, no matter how we rationalize our action.

Stevi Carroll

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