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Rabbi Roland Gittelaon, former president of the national conference of American Rabbis, said that "every single sociological study in this country indicates that [the death penalty] is ineffective as a deterrent." He added that "every time there is an execution, there is an increase rather than a decrease in murders...
No one has been executed in Massachusetts since 1947, when two convicted murderers were sent to the electric chair. But in the past decade, proponents of this extreme from of punishment have pushed hard for its reinstatement, often nearing success. While the state legislature has passed execution provisions several times...
The Supreme Judicial Court in 1980 stated in ruling the death penalty unconstitutional: "While this court has the power to correct constitutional or other errors by ordering new trials for capital defendents whose appeals are pending or who have been fortunate enough to obtain stays of execution or commutations, it...
After the debacle of World War II, Japan's economic resurgence was based on a unique set of institutions: a paternalistic labor-management relationship and social structure in which employees are hired in effect for life and are treated as partners cooperating for the common good; a public opinion...
Director Constantin Costa-Gavras (Z, State of Siege) builds Missing around the arrival in Santia go of Herman's father Edmund (Jack Lemmon), who joins Horman's wife (Sissy Spacek) in a frustrating quest to find out what happened to his son (John Shea). Basing his narrative largely...