America loves her capital punishment, she’s just not very good at it. In fact, the process of state sanctioned murder has a richly deserved reputation for being barbaric and routinely botched. As Joe Wood writhed on the executioner’s gurney, Arizona prison officials realized their lethal cocktail wasn’t performing as expected.
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The Equivocator: 10 Ballot measures to Watch in Tonight’s U.S. election
Tonight President Barack Obama will be re-elected, Democrats will keep the Senate and for no apparent reason the Republicans will keep the House of Representatives for another 2 years. More awesomely, Wisconsin is going to elect America’s first openly gay … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Fixin’ to Execute Steve Staley
As though sane people are short of reasons to decry capital punishment. Steve Staley may be the new poster boy for state barbarism. Stanley is on Death Row in Texas for the 1989 murder of a restaurant manager he shot while trying to elude police. Steve has been mentally disturbed
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s Speech in Support of the Abolition of Capital Punishment (House of Commons, June 15th, 1976.)
“I am sure that very few of us consciously contemplated, when we decided to run for public office, that we would find ourselves playing a decisive role in the resolution of a question as awesome as that of life and death. Yet, here we are, with all our individual limitations,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Capital Punishment – Canada, Let’s Not Go There.
Fantastic. Our cracked conservative government is floating yet another trial balloon on its anti-empirical evidence “tough” on reality crime bill. Listen to all the surreal talking points from the interview on CBC’s The Current Podcast. Civilized states do not put people to death. We should remain counted as a civilized
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