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It really is time for the death penalty to go
Wired has an article up on America’s long history of botched executions. Two weeks ago, things went horribly wrong with the execution of Clayton D. Lockett, a 38-year old Oklahoma man convicted of shooting a young woman and burying her … Continue reading
Posted in Society
Tagged Amherst College, Austin Sarat, Capital punishment, Death, Death Penalty, Lethal injection, Lockett, Oklahoma, United States
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The cult of justice – Charlie’s Diary
One of the problems with what I do is that I look for patterns in human behaviour, and once I see them I have difficulty un-seeing them. And there’s a set of patterns I keep seeing that are implicit in … Continue reading
Posted in Zeitgeist
Tagged Charlie Stross, Crime and Justice, Cult, Death Penalty, human behaviour, Human sacrifice, Law
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