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A Profile of Rick Halperin

By Steve Hall

Today's SMU Daily Campus has, "SMU professor goes to extremes to fight for equality," by Nicole Jacobsen.Today, 3,297 inmates are lined up on death row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The third largest group of 338 is stationed in Texas. In the U.S., more than 4,500 have fallen victim to this form of punishment since 1930, according to Crime Magazine. A 20-year-old Czech medical student, Jan Palach, set himself on fire in protest of the communist rule trying to enter his country. One SMU professor, just entering adulthood at the time, was there to see it. Most students would not think to visit an inmate on death row, witness a lethal injection execution or travel to third world countries and see first-hand the brutality and torture humans are inflicting on others...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).