Word: freakishness
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Still, abolitionists like Kendall argue that because of the care and caution required by the Supreme Court, the death penalty is likely to be applied very rarely and thus will always appear arbitrary and freakish. "After a long and complex legal process," says Columbia's Edgar, the handful of people executed are basically no more deserving of death than "the great mass of those who committed comparable crimes and do not get executed...
...security prison in Nevada, the price comes to $37,000 a cell, and a new, state-of-the-art maximum-security complex has cost Minnesotans $78,300 a cell. It takes about $15,000 to feed and guard an inmate for a year. National averages, though, can obscure almost freakish disparities between states. Inmates in Texas, at one extreme, build their prisons and grow 70% of their food, and so each prisoner costs the state only $3,577 a year. (Despite the free labor, the Texas legislature was forced to allot $96.5 million for prison-building for this year...
...ANGELES in 2019 presents few surprises Traffic trangles are thicker and constant rain has replaced the smog, but a skeletal Bradford building still towers over a freakish mob in the high-tech skyline of Blade Runner. Not that the skyline appears very often in Ridley Scott's latest sci-fi film. The director instead focuses on crowded halls and packed rooms, using flying billboards and continuous drizzle to further enclose the outdoor scenes. The atmosphere is stifling; this future world is a cage...
...committed for some particular, individual reason and not because of any collective groundswell. I think that when the Left makes its resurgence, it will be in response to a number of specific events: the reinstatement of the draft, escalated American involvement in Central American, or a specific freakish issue popping up, like student loans...
...probably step up their resistance if issues of concern become more vividly threatening. Says Anderson: "I think that when the Left makes its resurgence, it will be in response to a number of specific events: the reinstatement of the draft, escalated American involvement in Central America, or a specific freakish issue popping up, like student loans...