Capital punishment: Two choices for America


The states in the US that still use capital punishment seem to be having such a hard time putting people to death. — Los Angeles Times/Tribune News Service

YOU wouldn’t think that it would be that hard to kill someone.

History indicates that we’ve always been good at it. It took only one generation before Cain killed Abel in a fit of jealousy over divine approbation. Murder had been invented and we’ve never looked back.

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