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"The Pope Stops the Hangman" was the main headline in at least two papers; and front-page cartoons included one in Milan's Corriere della Sera showing the pope sticking his crook into the back of a black-hooded executioner with his hands up, and another in Rome's La Repubblica with him unplugging an electric chair while telling the still strapped-in murderer, "I have commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment, so you will have all the time you need to repent."
Repent?
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has asked all African-Americans to observe Thursday, Oct. 16, as a "day of atonement," and to stay home from work or school to fast and repent.
And yet I do not repent.
The hardhearted spin: Sharpton continues to rationalize rather than recant or repent.