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The Morality of the Death Penalty
by Yves Barbero
Politics without a moral base is greed at best, and fascism at worse. Morality
without a political program is mere self-indulgence and worse than useless.
For years, I wavered on the validity of the death penalty as an instrument of law enforcement. I never doubted that there are truly evil people who are responsible for many deaths. I listed them in my mind.
The political bad guy: Hitler, Saddam, Stalin, and a few closer to home...
The ...
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