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Sr. Helen takes on the DNCC

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via the Rocky Mountain News: Ultimately [ ]  Prejean received a standing ovation for her fiery denouncement of war and her tying it to desensitization caused by the allowance of capital punishment in American prisons. “Practice of the death penalty on our own soil,” Prejeans said, “has made it easier for us to kill those we designate as enemies or suspected enemies.” Prejean railed against what she called “shocking legalisms” used “to legitimize torture of suspected terrorists.” “We need to take death off the table as a punishment,” she said, adding that it would allow the U.S. to criticize countries like China for their own human rights records and “hold our heads up high because we don’t torture our citizens...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on August 24, 2008 (boomark / email).