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carnival ride. He continued down the block, turned left, and stopped abruptly cutting his lights. He casually looked around for any car that looked suspicious. There was none. He waited three minutes watching carefully while allowing his cargo to quell their uncontrolled trembling.
Just as suddenly as he stopped, Sky started and took off like a shot. His passengers gritted their teeth and braced for collision or turns not knowing when they would come. After the second stop, the ladies started to relax. This time Sky took off as if he were the father about to take his family on a picnic with time to spare.
“You can sit normal now,” he told them.
The shock of the spoken word made both women brace tight- ening their grip on each other expecting the unknown. Jennifer and Sienna exchanged confident looks and smiled at each other.
Sienna sat back in her seat and looked out of the window wondering how life would be for her in the future. What would her family be like now if it survived? Would she ever see her friends again? What would her new world be like? This had to be a nightmare she thought but what kind could produce such pain.
Jennifer took a deep breath wondering if she could live with- out her babies. They had become her heart she was given, had nurtured, loved and were taken away much too early in life. She thought of people she knew and prisoners she had represented but could think of no one who could kill a child in cold blood.
“God! I could think of so many ways the woman who killed my babies could suffer before she died,” she thought. “And it’s probably just as well that I will never know her. I’ve never be- lieved in the death penalty, but I’m beginning to understand why some people do. I guess it’s one thing in life to say what we will or won’t do; but until we are thrust in the core of that reality, we’re all just playing with words to impress others. I’ve always believed that all life is precious and fought with every breath against the death penalty. I’ve even believed I could not take another hu- man life under any circumstances. In the future, I must be very careful of what I say and what I really believe.”