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...meant to be an exposition of the issues on both sides, to get people excited about this election,” said Clayton W. Brooks III ’10, one of the debate’s organizers. Jeffery Kwong ’08-’09, Brooks??s co-organizer and former Harvard Republican Club president said that his personal experience motivated him to help sponsor the event. “I’m a gay republican,” Kwong said. “The party is changing, and I want that perception...
...York Times and on network television news shows, the fact that Brooks was the first American to be executed by lethal injection often sidetracked the press into focusing on the “ethical questions” raised by a doctor’s participation in taking Brooks??s life. A second tangential issue that received prominent play was whether or not pumping deadly chemicals into Brooks was more “humane” than giving him a lethal dose of electricity or forcing him to inhale poison...
...chances of an error. In the Brooks case, Texas may have killed the wrong man. Brooks and a partner were both convicted in 1977 of murdering an automobile mechanic the year before. It never came out in trial who actually fired the bullet that killed the mechanic. But Brooks?? partner, by using the appeals process, was allowed to plead guilty last year to having committed the crime. He was given a 40-year sentence, and could be eligible for parole in just two years. Brooks, who maintained his innocence, was slain...
...summer that executions will be stepped up in the next two years, and may approach the frequency of the Depression era, when there were three executions a week. Any attempt to stop the spate of killings must begin quickly. Public debate has nearly ended—the Times buried Brooks?? execution on page 28. Unless those with an interest in justice step forward soon, we will see the issue turned over to people like the pro-execution demonstrators outside the prison in Huntsville. They posed for the cameras with signs saying “Kill...
...Kelly’s Culture and Belief 14: “Human Being and the Sacred in the History of the West”; Slavic literature professor Julie Buckler’s Culture and Belief 15: “The Presence of the Past”; and Lisa T. Brooks?? Folklore and Mythology 126: “Continuing Oral Tradition in Native American Literature.” Culture and Belief 16: “Performance, Tradition and Cultural Studies: An Introduction to Folklore and Mythology,” also counting for Culture and Belief, will be adapted from...