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There are any number of Americans who would make an exception for John William King, the feral white man who chained a black man, James Byrd Jr., to a pickup truck last year and dragged him along a rough country road that skinned him alive and dismembered him. To object to putting King to death for the deed requires a saintliness I do not possess. In one sense, King's case is almost a moral free ride. My conscience would remain untroubled by some other death sentences, but John William King's execution will seem especially just and fitting...
...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...
...this weekend will surely show, parent-child interactions can be rough. Just like everyone else, I have a complex relationship with my family. Sometimes I want to run screaming out of 14 Plympton St. and back to my room, where it doesn't matter if I'm not meeting my deadlines or if other people aren't meeting theirs. But I'm stuck with this family, for better or worse. And, truth be told, the other four execs are doing a damn good job of towing me along and getting me in line. This note, in fact, came...
...this weekend will surely show, parent-child interactions can be rough. Just like everyone else, I have a complex relationship with my family. Sometimes I want to run screaming out of 14 Plympton St. and back to my room, where it doesn't matter if I'm not meeting my deadlines or if other people aren't meeting theirs. But I'm stuck with this family, for better or worse. And, truth be told, the other four execs are doing a damn good job of towing me along and getting me in line. This note, in fact, came...
...hammer caromed off the hull of her boat. Still, she is well aware that lethal dangers are never far off. In these same southern Pacific waters in 1997, she broke off from another round-the-world race to search for a French-Canadian yachtsman who had been swamped by rough seas. He was never found. "We race boats, but we're not out to flirt with death," says Autissier. "If one of us doesn't come back, we've all lost...