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Paul Flemming: Death needs more than a simple majority

You couldn't get spinach on your pizza after E. coli-tainted shipments of the leafy stuff killed a couple people. The Cardinals won the World Series. "Basic Instinct 2," "Ice Age 2" and "Jackass 2" played in theaters. Among those who died in 2006 was an odd musical trio: Buck Owens, Billy Preston and Syd Barrett.Clarence Hill, Arthur Rutherford, Danny Rolling and Angel Diaz also died that year. They were executed by the state of Florida.That same year, a group assembled by the American Bar Association released a weighty tome ? a literal and figurative description of the 400-plus page assessment of Florida's death penalty.Those who labored to produce it ranged across the ideological spectrum, and its leadership was at great pains to insist ? correctly ? that the report did not take a position on the death penalty itself, only its administration and the many flaws in Florida's system...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on September 25, 2009 (boomark / email).