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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Firing Squad in Utah
The state government in Utah has executed a convicted killer by firing squad. Someday, let us hope, governments will be unable to find marksmen and physicians willing to participate in such barbarism. The State should not be allowed to execute.
I was up at the state capitol protesting. As we waited for the Attorney General to announce that the execution had occurred, my stomach churned, and I felt visceral revulsion at what Arthur Silber so aptly calls "the death state."
I was up at the state capitol protesting. As we waited for the Attorney General to announce that the execution had occurred, my stomach churned, and I felt visceral revulsion at what Arthur Silber so aptly calls "the death state."
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