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Debating His Fate

Jewish leaders in L.A. are torn about a death
sentence if the KC shooter is convicted.

NAOMI PFEFFERMAN
Special to the Jewish News

Los An eles
leanor Kadish had only
returned to work for a cou-
ple of weeks when she
learned that federal prosecu-
tors were seeking the death penalty for
Buford Furrow Jr.
For six months, Kadish, a recruiter
for an employment agency, took off
work to care for her son Benjamin,
now 6, who was confined to a wheel-
chair after he was shot in the
abdomen and the left upper thigh.
Furrow is awaiting trial for alleged-
ly shooting Benjamin and four other
people at the North Valley Jewish
Community Center before murdering
a Filipino-American postal worker last
August.
Kadish, who says her son still walks
with a limp and cannot play with the
other children during recess at his
public school, is still haunted by what
happened at the community center.
"I still worry, 'Where are my chil-
dren now? Are they well-protected?'
These thoughts go through my mind
all day long, ' she says.
Kadish did not find comfort when
the media reported that Furrow, if
convicted, could die by lethal injec-
tion.
The daughter of Holocaust sur-
vivors, she is resigned to the fact that
hate crime is integral to society.
Even if Furrow dies, she says, "I
think there are many more people out
there very much like him."
Kadish, who spoke to prosecutors
before they sought the death penalty,
would not comment on whether she
feels Furrow should die for his alleged
crimes. Like other victims' relatives,
she does not want her remarks to
interfere in any way with the prosecu-
tion.
While the Jewish Community
Centers of Greater Los Angeles vowed
to support whatever sentence is hand-
ed down by the courts, and the Anti-
Defamation League left Furrow's fate
"up to the informed decision of the

Naomi Pfefferman writes for the
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles.

prosecutors," other Jewish leaders are
more vociferous.
"Buford Furrow is a poster boy for
capital punishment," says national
radio talk-show host Dennis Prager,
agreeing with the 55 percent of
Americans who support the death
penalty for the avowed racist, accord-
ing to an August 1999 Gallup poll.
"Furrow had the premeditated
desire to murder as many human
beings as possible. And the only way
that society can declare how it feels
about a crime is by the punishment it
inflicts."
Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin of Stephen S.
Wise Temple in Los Angeles, another
longtime supporter of the death penal-
ty, advocates the death penalty if
Furrow is convicted because hate
killers "have become subhuman and
are a menace to humankind."
And Todd Carb, the 41-year-old
Jewish paramedic who rushed to the
community center last August, agrees
for a more personal reason.
Carb still thinks about the morning
that he knelt beside Benjamin in the
center's hallway, struggling to work an
intravenous line into the boy's deflat-
ing veins, which demonstrated no dis-
cernable pulse.
"Based on what. I've seen at work,"
he says, "I know that some people's
actions are so offensive that only the
death penalty is appropriate."
Nevertheless, Carb and others who
support lethal injection for Furrow are
aware of a strong, albeit minority,
opinion against the death penalty.
Twenty percent of Jews polled for a
1998 survey published in the

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics

oppose capital punishment.
Their qualms reverberate in the
larger -society.
In late January, the governor of
Illinois called for a moratorium on
executions in his state because of a
perceived pattern of racism and error
by the criminal justice system.
This month, the New York Times
ran a front-page story, "Questions of
Death Row Justice for Poor People in
Alabama."
And late last year, the Reform and
Conservative movements issued a joint
statement with the Catholic church

