… and the first thing I did was try to find it online. Where it wasn’t available. Which disappointed me. Because I believe in eye-for-an-eye justice and that people who rail against capital punishment are so inherently misguided. I’ve written…
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Today’s Metro story
… is about dramatic testimony in the penalty phase of an admitted cop killer. Both fallen Officer John Pawlowski’s brother and widow testified. So did admitted killer Rasheed Scruggs’ sister and two women who beared his children. Didn’t have nearly…
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• Education is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution; the creation of the world’s first system of universal public education—from kindergarten through high school—and of mass higher education is one of the great achievements of American democracy. It embodies a faith…
Today’s Metro Story
… can be found here. Or, in abbreviated form, here … A bill that would enable defendants to call for hearings on whether race factored into Death Row sentences reached the state House Judiciary Committee this week. Though odds are…