Friday, December 21, 2007

State of the Nation: Ending State Executions

Filed under: Civil Liberties | Critical Voices | Law — by Bob Zuber @ 3:50 am

The Des Moines Register urges the nation to follow New Jersey’s example: “Change is in the air. Perhaps Americans have been paying attention when inmates who were wrongly convicted have been released from death row. Perhaps they understand there is something cruel and unusual about a public employee strapping criminals to tables for a lethal injection or shaving their heads to prep them for the electric chair or placing them in gas chambers while audiences watch them die.”

State of Mind

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Words for Acts

Perhaps an honest world will never exist. But what's to keep us from dreaming? If each one of us tries to change, maybe we'll succeed.

Rita Atria -- The Sicilian Rebel



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