"The War is far from being over"

I have been staring at this picture for the last half hour. It makes me feel ill let me tell you. I am grateful that the state I now reside in New Jersey just abolished the death penalty, but I am nearly surrounded. Looking at this map makes Jersey look like such a small victory. In truth it's not a small victory, it is a battle won gallantly. It did in fact bring us one step closer to winning the over all war.
It is comforting that the opinion on the death penalty is shifting, this is undeniable. The opinion was slowly shifting with the pressure of abolitionists alone, but the video of the hanging of one Saddam Hussein leaked onto the Internet rocked the country and the world. Evidence of the shift in opinion would be the abolition in New Jersey and the symbolic moratorium passed by vote at the UN late in 2007.
I have met people that have been fighting the death penalty for decades. I have only just begun to fight going on my fifth year. I am tired, but I still have a lot of fight left in me. I have vowed this as well as stated it again and again and I will reaffirm it right here and now; this fight is until my last breath. This system took something from me that can never be replaced. Seeing this does not continue to happen needlessly to young men and women is my life now. Take a good look at that map and keep coming back, cause you will see a shift in the color.

Here's looking at it from a world wide view. Yea, the war is far from being over. In Struggle. "X"