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Hope's case last week helped persuade Republican Governor George Ryan, a death-penalty advocate, to take the unprecedented step of halting executions in the state. He said there would be no more lethal injections until he could "be sure with moral certainty" that no more innocent people were headed...
In another piece, Shared Fate, we see an array of objects--a pair of gloves, a deck of cards--sliced into by that most humane of execution devices, the guillotine. This wasn't just any big blade; it was, as the caption informs us, the one used to behead Marie...
"The big difference in the game was their execution on the power play and our inability to capitalize on our power play chances," Mazzoleni said.
In fact, few even see the necessity of debating the death penalty. Abortion, another area where we fall far short of protecting human life, is at least a hot political topic. Whether it is abortion or capital punishment, each time we condone the execution of another person, we are chipping...
Recently, several states, including Illinois, have reexamined the effects of their death penalty laws. There is a growing trend of concern, both domestically and abroad, that executions in the U.S. may be carried out disproportionately against minorities. And while Robert Tarver wasn't arguing against his death sentence per se...