<div><p>Kaitlyn Marie Wise was killed on Valentine’s Day, 2023. She was 29 years old and lived in Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky. On May 13, 2024, more than a year later, Dailin Marquez Brown-Graves, age 23, was arrested and charged with murder. He has pleaded not guilty. She is White; he is Black. The Kentucky Commonwealth is seeking the death penalty. The trial is set for November 25 here in Marion County.</p><p>The death penalty is wrong. Jesus instructs us: to love God with all our hearts and souls and minds and to love our neighbors as ourselves. This teaching is at the center of our lives. Our very purpose is to reflect back to God all the beauty and goodness we are surrounded with. Some people don’t have the gifts we’ve received and again our job is to share this goodness that we know.</p></div>

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Considering the Death Penalty

Kaitlyn Marie Wise was killed on Valentine’s Day, 2023. She was 29 years old and lived in Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky. On May 13, 2024, more than a year later, Dailin Marquez Brown-Graves, age 23, was arrested and charged with murder. He has pleaded not guilty. She is White; he is Black. The Kentucky Commonwealth is seeking the death penalty. The trial is set for November 25 here in Marion County.