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	<title>a believer's journal &#187; death_penalty</title>
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		<title>renewed debate about lethal injection</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/12/19/renewed-debate-about-lethal-injection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an article by Oren Dorell and Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY: The questions over lethal injection that have led executions to be halted in Florida and California are likely to curb the use of the death penalty across the USA, according to analysts who support capital punishment and others who oppose it. However, it&#8217;s unclear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>wise words from amnesty international on the saddam verdict</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Malcolm Smart of Amnesty International: Every accused has a right to a fair trial, whatever the magnitude of the charge against them. This plain fact was routinely ignored through the decades of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s tyranny. His overthrow opened the opportunity to restore this basic right and, at the same time, to ensure, fairly, accountability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a sick and perverted spectacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sick and perverted spectacle &#8230; Those are the words Stanley Tookie Williams used to characterize his impending execution. Williams was executed early this morning, after appeals for a stay of execution were denied by the California Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court, and after a plea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a shameful milestone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The execution by lethal injection of Kenneth Lee Boyd in North Carolina marked the 1000th execution in the United States since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. A report by Amnesty International reveals that in 2004, the United States executed more human beings than any other nation with the exception of China, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>redemption</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is redemption possible? Yes. Should the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams be stayed because his life has been redeemed, because his life now has some redeeming value? No. If Mr. Williams should not be executed because he has succeeded in turning his life around, it follows that if he had not done so, he should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>why the death penalty is wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/10/28/why-the-death-penalty-is-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The death penalty is wrong because it serves no moral or practical purpose. 1) The death penalty is not an effective deterrent. Jeffrey Fagan, Columbia Law School professor, offers this testimony: Recent studies claiming that executions reduce murders have fueled the revival of deterrence as a rationale to expand the use of capital punishment. Such [...]]]></description>
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