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The state held its last execution in 1947. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court threw out the most recent death-penalty law in 1984, ruling that it could be applied unevenly.
He proposed an amendment to televise any execution the state conducts.
Massachusetts conducted its last execution in 1947. The drive to reinstate the death penalty has been spurred by recent local killings, most prominently the murder and rape of Jeffrey Curley, the Cambridge 10-year-old kidnapped by two men and dumped in a plastic container in a Maine river. Curley...
China, under the leadership of Jiang, has already demonstrated that it is an aggressive nation willing to brutally crush any form of internal dissent. It has already attempted to use its military to stifle democracy in Taiwan. It sells ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons components to Iran and North Korea...
Says Goodwin of writing the book, "The greatest pleasure...came from finding these kids on my block. Someone remembered the sound of screen doors slamming--that was our signal that someone had come over--and someone else remembered the sound of honking horns after the Rosenberg execution...This made me...