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...this simple, why during executions by firing squad (such as the one last month in Utah), does one of the guns contain blanks, not bullets? No one shooter definitively knows if he fired the fatal bullet. If the job of an executioner were morally justified beyond doubt, there would be no need to lift off any individual's shoulders the responsibility for the execution...
Much of the power of the show is derived from those features on the periphery. The talented live rock band surrounding the stage provided a cornucopia of upbeat musical styles from gospel to funk to 1950s rock. The staging brilliantly took advantage of the constraints of the Pool Theatre by...
This past Monday for example, students attentively listened to Robert Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, discuss his parents' trial and execution.
That stay of execution came just in time; the Governors have always been at the heart of Dole's strategy, and he can't afford to lose them now. He has courted 24 of them successfully for their endorsements, their money machines and above all their power over their delegate...
What else can be made of Farrakhan's sucking up to Muammar Gaddafi, who, the official Libyan news agency reports, pledged that Libya will give the Nation of Islam a cool billion to expand its role in electoral politics? (The money has yet to be delivered.) Or his plea to...