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SCOTUS ignores its own rulings to keep executions going
A death row man ate his own eye. Justices said whatevs.
capital punishment
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The public is recoiling at news of South Carolina reviving death by firing squad. Conservative Republicans, however, love it
What’s next? Is the state going to permit tar-and-feathering of convicted criminals? Sew scarlet letters on the shirts of adulterers?
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Barbarous law, bastardized freedom and death by the state
How we rationalize the breach of human rights.