Word: abolishment
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Thirteen states have now abolished the death penalty, in whole or part. But while the rest of the country is reluctant to discard it, endless appeals as well as commutations now commonly delay or prevent executions. At the beginning of last year 331 prisoners lingered on death rows across the country, but few if any of them are likely to join the 3,856 Americans (including 32 women) executed since 1930. The Federal Government has carried out only one execution in ten years, now has only one pending (Nebraska Bank Robber-Murderer Duane E. Pope). Says Michigan's Senator...
...historic racial imbalance law has but one sanction against a thoroughly intractable school committee like Boston's: the cancellation of state aid. For the legislature to allow Boston to duck the only penalty that can be invoked under the act would be, in effect, to abolish it altogether...
...year of the draft review, a real fight against the draft is necessary and possible: Not by mouthing McNamara's "Abolish 2-S," but by fighting for an end to the draft itself and reforms consistent with that end. While these reforms are (like all reforms) obfuscations of the ultimate goal, mobilizing support for them can broaden the base of our movement, and bring nearer the time when it will be politically impossible for a Johnson to wage a Vietnam...
...draft, as well as those unaffected but who oppose the draft, around the slogan NO DRAFTEES TO VIETNAM. A campaign such as this could have a real mass appeal, bringing about the kind of unity between students and non-students which could never result from a drive to abolish the 2-S deferment. We should support those 3 non-students, Samas, Mora, and Johnson, white, Puerto-Rican, and Negro working class youth in their refusal to go to Vietnam...