Shades of Gray
“Infinite shades of gray, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, infinite shades of gray.â? Then they watched the life stream out of me in rivulets of electricity, my head covered by a cloth. “To spare the queasy,â? they said. Death isn’t for the meek and mild. No, it better suits a more gruesome group of the population. Death isn’t pretty. They said I would know. They said I would know what death was like, what it looked like. They were wrong. They said I was guilty. That guilt and innocence are like black and white. Oh, they were wrong. Infinite shades of gray haunt the land of guilt and innocence. It is not clear-cut. No, it is hazy, easily muddled, confusable, and haunting for those whose job it was to find me guilty. Haunted by those words, “beyond a reasonable doubt.â?