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Two from HuffPo

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Two great pieces over at HuffPo. John W. Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute looks at the secrecy surrounding the rituals of death. His first and last sentences from that piece are below, what lies between, however, shouldn’t be missed: In our post-9/11 world, government secrecy has become an accepted norm, whether the topic is national security, government spending or constitutional protocols for executions. (Consider that Americans barely protested at the news that President Bush had authorized government agents to secretly listen in on our phone calls and read our emails.). . . The manner in which capital punishment is meted out in this country is nothing less than a travesty of justice. And lethal injections, with their shroud of secrecy, are just one part of the problem...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).