Bulgarian playwright Alexander Sekulov’s drama makes its American debut.
Tag: Capital punishment
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Scalia to America: The Supreme Court isn’t worthy to judge
Justice Scalia says the court he serves on is out of touch.
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Death, despair, destruction: a few long reads
The Internet is for aggregation! The least you can do is read some good shit
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Death and Texas
Into the Abyss and At the Death House Door consider capital punishment
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The second execution
The execution of Troy Davis presents a strong case against the death penalty—but what about arguments that are harder to make?
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Rick Perry, Cameron Todd Willingham, and the death penalty
Critics in the Willingham case say a man was executed on the basis of junk science; Texas governor Rick Perry disagrees.
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Hang ‘Em All, Let God Sort ‘Em Out
Sometimes legal systems giveth where the law books taketh away
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The Punishment We Deserve
A review of Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America, by Anne-Marie Cusac (Yale University Press)