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Posts Tagged ‘The Scales of Justice’

NEW YORK TIMES

Turns Out It Hurts to be Killed

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

AP96011702806.jpgI know it’s Iowa Day where we celebrate importance of Iowa by letting it pick our next president, but there are still a ton of other dumb things going on in this dumb country that we have to talk about. High on that list is the crazy way we execute people, which is something I knew pretty much nothing about 10 minutes ago but has now made me a raving lunatic and it’s no wonder that a lawyer somewhere finally decided to suggest that maybe this process was a little cruel and/or unusual along with a whole slew of other adjectives I can think of. MORE »