Word: abolitionism
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One issue on everyone's mind was censorship. Even conservative union President Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, 78, complained that Poland's broad censorship makes it impossible to deal with contemporary history. Liberal delegates did not attempt to press for total abolition of censorship. They agreed that Communist Party control in...
And in a larger context, the triumph over ROTC meant little. At most it gave us a good feeling to have destroyed the crudest connection between our University and the war machine. But our strike did nothing material to slow up the flow of soldiers and pilots to Indochina: faced...
Beginning in the late 19th century, a trend against capital punishment has continued, if not always steadily, in both Britain and America. In 1846 Michigan, then a territory, became the first English-speaking jurisdiction in the world to do away with the death penalty for all practical purposes (treason excepted...
In response, Stanford Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam, the principal architect of the abolition campaign, has developed an intricate argument. He finds that execution is now generally reserved for a few socially unacceptable, personally ugly and invariably poor defendants; a disproportionate number are from minority groups. "If a penalty is generally...
If the death penalty survives at all, its determined opponents will doubtless turn first to Governors to seek commutations and then to state legislatures, which may provide the best forum for settling the question. One can reasonably hope that the legislators will endorse abolition, exercising leadership for the electorate. Such...