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The NYT and LAT off-leads and inside stories elsewhere report that the governor of Missouri, Mel Carnahan, a proponent of capital punishment, commuted the death sentence of a convicted murder to life in prison without parole after the pope, during his recent visit to St. Louis appealed directly to him to "show mercy" in the case.
“Chutzpa is that quality enshrined in a man, who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.
In the center is Amida Nyorai, the Buddha who leads believers to Paradise; on the right is Senju (“Thousand-Armed”) Kannon, the goddess of mercy; on the left is Bato-Kannon, depicted with a horse’s head on its forehead, regarded as the protector of animals.
Although Kevorkian claims to have presided over 120-plus mercy suicides, in this most recent case, he directly caused death.
"There is no mercy for the dead," commented the Italian newspaper La Stampa about this story.