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Baze Editorial Round-Up

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There are editorials today in the Austin American-Statesman, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, Kansas City Star , Des Moines Register, Charlotte (NC) Observer, and Roanoke (VA) Times.Let me start with the hometown Statesman, "The executions and the questions shall continue."The decision?s focus was narrow: whether the method of execution passes constitutional muster. We now have an answer to that, but Stevens raises questions that should be considered in the future about just what society accomplishes when it kills. It was neither a clean nor a satisfactory ruling, but it should be enough balm on the consciences of death penalty proponents who are claiming a significant victory. It is, but one haunted by Stevens? questions and others associated with the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).