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The execution chamber in Huntsville, Tex., will be busy Wednesday night. Two inmates are scheduled to die by lethal injection - one of whom, Oliver David Cruz, has repeatedly tested below the threshold for mental retardation - and Governor George W. Bush will not be there.
In the wake of the Gary Graham execution, which garnered significant international media attention, Bush may be quite pleased to relinquish control over these cases; with the governor on the national campaign trail, the responsibility for passing final review falls to Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry. Unfortunately for Bush, the long...
So much for the past. What about Cheney's future health? He clearly did himself a big favor 22 years ago when he gave up a three-pack-a-day cigarette habit. He supervised the planning and execution of the 1991 Persian Gulf War with nary a complaint from his...
"I think there are some times that the public ought to have the right to consider execution as a punishment," he said.
But there is little allegorical content in Chardin's still life, and when (rarely) it occurs, one senses a throwback. What he is best at painting is things seen for their own sake, deriving their meaning from their being, not the other way around. The Ray, 1725-26, is perhaps...