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CONTACT GOVERNOR SANFORD Please write a brief and courteous letter to South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. It is best if you send it in the regular mail, and at this point there is still time - if you act right now. The address is below. Please make the following points in your letter: Please commute the sentence of Shawn Paul Humphries. This case should never have been considered for the death penalty. It was an attempted armed robbery where the victim reached for a gun and the defendant fired one time and ran. Of the hundreds of tragic murders that take place every year in South Carolina this was clearly not the worst of the worst. Mr. Humphries received a death sentence in large part because the prosecutor compared his life with his victim's life in closing arguments in sentencing, which a panel of the Circuit Court of Appeals concluded was improper. Governor, you have a legal and moral obligation to make sure our death penalty system is fair to all. You also have an obligation to instill mercy into the system. As a South Carolina citizen, I ask you not to allow Mr. Humphries to be killed. ADDRESS Governor Mark Sanford Office of the Governor P.O. Box 12267 Columbia, SC 29211 Fax: 803-734-5167 Please send a copy of your letter to your local newspaper. If you are writing from outside of South Carolina, please send a copy of your letter to: Editor, The State P.O. Box 1333 Columbia, S.C. 29202. and/or Editor, The Greenville News P.O. Box 1688 305 S. Main St. Greenville, SC 29601