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Recently, a new development has underlined the need to abolish the death penalty. This is the tendency for capital cases to drag on for years and even decades, until a new class of convict has been created--the permanent resident of Death Row. The surreal horror of this kind of situation should be enough to convince anyone that the death penalty is creating far more suffering than it is preventing...
...must also encourage mass education, expand the work of the Peace Corps, abolish antiquated trade restrictions and provide trade preferences for Latin America...
...Sheriff, Sears has promised to make the best of a bad job--he plans to abolish it. The Sheriff oversees the Charles Street Jail, which the police commissioner could do, and the dispensing of patronage, which could be replaced by a merit appointment system...
...Sara Ehrmann has a special stake in the Massachusetts election next month, when her fellow voters will decide whether to join a national trend (13 states so far) and abolish the death penalty in their state. Mrs. Ehrmann, a cheerful woman of 73 who has worked for 40 years in this cause, is hopeful of the November out come. She has been supported all along by the conviction, which amounts to a Doer's principle, that "if people understand and are properly dealt with, they will follow an intelligent and humane course...
...abolish Corporation appointments for ROTC instructors...