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...what will undoubtedly and tragically be forgotten, as the Supreme Court reviews Banks??€™s 1980 murder case this fall and as politicians everywhere continue to debate peripheral details of the death penalty process, is that capital punishment has lost any claim to ethical acceptability anywhere else in the Western industrialized world. Flaws such as racial bias are ultimately insignificant (in fact, whites receive the death penalty slightly more often than blacks overall, and the race of the defendant is of much less statistical relevance than that of the victim, according to research by Smith College scholars published...
...fairness to proponents of death sentences, these are usually carried out by lethal injection, perhaps the most physically humane method of killing ever devised (they even rub alcohol onto your skin before inserting the needle). Nevertheless, the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Banks??€™s case comes almost exactly five years to the day after the Texas execution of Joseph Cannon, a juvenile offender, which featured collapsing veins, a long delay and a second final statement. Twenty-three other improper applications of the lethal injection (out of 680) have taken place nationally since its first...
...Saturday, the North jumped out to a 7-0 lead and soon after recovered Heisman runner-up Brad Banks??€™ fumble in South territory. On the next play, Texas Tech quarterback Kliff Kingsbury, who led the NCAA in passing yards this season, pitched the ball to Morris behind the line of scrimmage. Morris found fellow Division 1-AA wide receiver David Kircus of Grand Valley State for the touchdown...
...Harvard men’s cross-country team’s hopes of a win over Yale and an undefeated Ivy dual record were dashed on Saturday by a metal flag pole that sliced open the bottom of senior Taylor Banks??€™ eye in the last half mile of the race...
...flag pole, which marks a major bend in the five-mile course, snapped back and cut Banks??€™ lower eyelid just as he and freshman Tim Galeback were putting in a surge to chase down a pack of three Yale runners...