FIRST HALF HOUR: Nine months into Bob McDavid's term as mayor of Columbia, he shares his thoughts and ideas on the year ahead, including criteria for selecting a new city manager and his views on the role of the mayor in promoting economic development.
SECOND HALF HOUR: We discuss last-minute efforts to halt the execution of Richard Clay and how this case fits into the larger context of the death penalty in Missouri and in America.
UPDATE: Shortly after this program was recorded, Governor Jay Nixon announced that he had commuted Richard Clay's sentence to life in prison without possibility of parole.

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Panelists:
Bob McDavid, mayor of Columbia (first half of program)
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Jeff Stack, coordinator, Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation
Kiefer Clay, son of Richard Clay (by phone)

 


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Dylan Hosmer-Quint
01/11/2011 08:12

I just heard your report on the man being put to death in Missouri. To me, it is unbelievable that in the 21st century, we are still at the moral level to kill someone. Can we really be that obsessed by revenge? Do we think that it will somehow help to ensure that a person can never prove their innocence or come to terms with their crime? In my opinion, sentencing this person to death is little better than murder, we take from them the same that they took from the person they killed. How is that helpful? The issue of his innocence is irrelevant, he is a human, he has a conscience and a life, how is it right to take that away from him. I have trouble respecting any official that would take that away from someone. Governor Nixon, save his life, and save that from the conscience of future Missourians.

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Joe Johnson
01/11/2011 10:15

As you see, Governor Nixon has. Even a 15 year old like you can make a difference.

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Dylan Hosmer-Quint
01/11/2011 16:36

This victory isn't a total victory, the true victory will be ending the death penalty forever.

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George Dillard
01/15/2011 10:47

I salute Hosmer-Quint! The death penalty *is* murder, even on its face. No human being has the right or (even the capability) to pass a judgement of death upon another. Governor Nixon made the right decision.

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