When justice becomes vengeance
"Sometimes I just feel like I'm leaking grief from my pores."
The comment, a poetic admittance of emotional exhaustion, came as Cheryl Pilate awaited a phone call from the U.S. Supreme Court on March 20. The call would either spare the life of her client, a death row inmate, or it would not. She knew the wait well -- this wasn't her first execution.
The clock hit 5:35 p.m.
After 6 p.m. the state of Missouri
