The death penalty brutalizes everyone connected with it: Judges and juries who pass it down, politicians who turn an evil or a blind eye to it, jailers, executioners, and more than anyone, the person whose life is extinguished by it. Although capital... ...full story at Japan Times
from Japan Times on Sat, Nov 29 2008
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