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    Tuesday, December 13, 2005

    Barbaric Practice Used Disproportionately Against Black People

    [...]
    "Tonight is planned, efficient, calculated, antiseptic, cold-blooded murder and I think everyone who is here is here to try to enlist the morality and soul of this country," said Baez, who sang "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" on a small plywood stage set up just outside the gates.
    [...]
    "There is no part of me that existed then that exists now," Williams said recently during an interview with The Associated Press.

    "I haven't had a lot of joy in my life. But in here," he said, pointing to his heart, "I'm happy. I am peaceful in here. I am joyful in here."
    [...]

    I listened to Amy Goodman interview Williams a couple of weeks ago.

    posted by TheFuriousGourmet | 5:21 AM

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    Anonymous Anonymous said...

    Today was quite a depressing day. As a staunch student of our criminal justice system ... I was admittedly sad about this failure. It was so cliche to hear the turnover of "he deserved to die."

    Until someone can explain to me HOW taking a life will compensate for a life already lost ... or how taking a life will demonstrate that murder is wrong ... I simply cannot accept that ANYONE deserves to die.

    10:29 PM  

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