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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understanding Jasper may lie in these questions: Can capital punishment possibly be civilizing? Might it be sometimes indispensable? Human nature, without a social contract, leads people to pursue and punish murderers in their own way. The social contract restrains man's impulse toward rough justice. The contract states: Our authorities, acting under law for the community, will find the killers, try them and punish them. Implicit is the promise that the punishment will be sufficient to satisfy the need not only for moral satisfaction and justice but also for some measure of emotional satisfaction, a catharsis by--to admit...
...promising novelty of Jasper is that for a moment, it aligns the black social contract with the white social contract. That is all that racial justice is ultimately about: the equality of the contracts. In the past they have been two different documents, with very different protections under...
Sources say the talks have stalled over how tobuy out the contract of older guards, and howlarge a salary guards ought to be paid whenoutsourcing their tasks is far cheaper...
...Because of contract negotiations, I haven'tbeen able to finish what I started," he says...
...notified me today that they didn'twant a contract for the guards...given theappropriate time, of course, they could [fire theguards...