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demoleft

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Tue Aug-21-07 03:42 PM
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EU urges Texas to end executions

Source: BBC

The European Union has urged the governor of Texas to stop all executions as the state prepares to carry out its 400th death penalty.

Johnny Ray Conner, 32, will be executed on Wednesday in America's busiest death penalty state for the 1998 fatal shooting of a grocery store clerk.

The EU expressed "great regret" at the impending sentence and renewed its call to the US to halt judicial killings.

The punishment was "cruel and inhumane", said the EU.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6957390.stm

Cruel and inhumane. The right words.

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Taverner

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Tue Aug-21-07 03:46 PM
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1. Yep. And it ensures anyone who's framed will never get the chance to be free

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AnneD

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Tue Aug-21-07 04:07 PM
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2. Not so fast....

we may want to throw a neck tie party for some folks when they return from DC in a few years. I will personally heat the tar for Rove if someone can get me a few sacks of feathers.

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heliarc

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Tue Aug-21-07 04:20 PM
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3. How about they leave the 400th guy on death row...

And execute someone who we know actually deserves it. Like Henry Kissinger. Sorry, I hate to be a contrarian, but I don't really mind the death penalty for proved genocidal maniacs.

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rodeodance

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Tue Aug-21-07 04:22 PM
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4. end the death penalty period. Bet TX does NOT like the EU voiced their concern!

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damntexdem

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Tue Aug-21-07 04:24 PM
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5. Cruel and inhumane? Whazzat mean?

Texans don't understand them fancy, librul, Youreapein words.

;-)

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