Barbaric Practice Used Disproportionately Against Black People
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"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.
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"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."
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I listened to Amy Goodman interview Williams a couple of weeks ago.
"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.
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"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."
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I listened to Amy Goodman interview Williams a couple of weeks ago.
posted by TheFuriousGourmet | 5:21 AM
1 Comments:
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.
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