Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He spent a year and a half in an orphanage while his father served a jail term for forgery. That's not a very good head start. He's had a pretty terrible sixteen years. I think maybe we owe him a few words. That's all.

It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.

There were eleven votes for guilty. It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.

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