Bill Wiseman - I just felt sick. I was actually executing people. I

I just felt sick. I was actually executing people. I knew it was wrong, and I should have voted against it. But I didn’t.

Context

He like the majority if the State Legislature, had voted for the death penalty in Oklahoma.

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Bill Wiseman, Oklahoma State Assemblyman (Republican), 1974, Quoted in Mother Jones, September and October 2005

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