It's very rare for a judge in California to reduce a death penalty verdict. (It's) even more rare for Judge Al Delucchi to do so. He gives deference and respect to the expression of the conscience of the community, as expressed by this jury.

At his passing, there was not even an eddy in the snow, neither the briefest glimpse of the occluded moon nor the faintest stirring through the trees. In this regard, her death, when sooner or later it came, would be like his: the world indifferent, turning smoothly onward toward the fascination of another dawn.

If you treat every situation as a life-and-death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.

Death Laughs In The Faces Of Clocks

The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life.

As Your Life Flashes Before Your Eyes At The Point Of Death, Let's Hope The Ad Breaks Have Been Edited Out