Word: executioner
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Sunday's Chicago Tribune unveiled the first installment of an investigation that concluded: "Under Gov. George W. Bush, Texas has executed dozens of Death Row inmates whose cases were compromised by unreliable evidence, disbarred or suspended defense attorneys, meager defense efforts during sentencing and dubious psychiatric testimony." And that's...
Under the heading "Crimes and Punishments (Primitive and Savage)," the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics lists possible methods of execution: "Decapitation, strangulation, hanging, stabbing or spearing, cudgelling or flagellation, impalement, crucifixion, drowning, burning, flaying alive, burying alive, throwing from a height, stoning, sending the criminal to sea in a leaky...
Ricky McGinn could be one lucky man. Thanks to a fortuitous collision of timing and what many will interpret as political expediency, the convicted murderer and rapist will live to see another sunrise. Scheduled to die Thursday in what might have been just another routine Texas execution, McGinn was saved...
Bush, who stands among the nation's most vocal supporters of the death penalty, faced a very public decision as he weighed McGinn's fate. And by granting McGinn a stay of execution and recommending the DNA tests, Bush executed an unalloyed about-face, knowing the case could very well...
Politically, Bush was confronted with a sort of Catch-22. Had he taken the resolute route, standing by his record and refusing to grant McGinn's stay, he would have endured aggressive attacks from death penalty opponents. But by playing his "compassionate conservative" card, and granting the stay of execution...