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State Execution 2009
Posted on November 11th, 2009 No commentsI will never get used to hearing the news of state executions. They are chilling and incomprehensible displays of justice in my mind. Yet today in Virginia, the state killed a man who had killed many himself. Any eye for an eye.
Deaglan deBreadun in his Irish Times blog this morning reflects on capital punishment and reproduces an article he wrote at the time from Virginia.
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