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My technical, political and sometimes personal blog.

I’m livid to hear about the murder of Akmal Shaikh by the Chinese communist government. Akmal was a British citizen and this was the first time china executed a foreign national in about 50 years. The guy they killed was, according to his family, a sufferer of severe bipolar disorder complete with delusions of grandeur. [...]

Hello All,
It’s 5:18, and we’re still waiting for word from the U.S. Supreme Court.
If you pray, now is the time to do so again….
Follow the news at CNN.com or www.ajc.com
Just a few hours south of where Troy Davis waits, wondering if he will be killed in less than two hours, Richard Henyard is scheduled to [...]

I’m beginning to wonder if Ahmadinejad is despised in the same way an un-selfaware person hates the acquaintance who visibly displays his own worst personality traits. For example, people who are impatient waiting for the cashier at the CVS annoy me but I do the exact same thing. This is know in certain [...]

It happened last month, but somehow it missed major media coverage.
Thanks, Xavier, for the link.

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http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=8&did=478

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An execution cannot be used to condemn killing. Such an act by the state is the mirror image of the criminal’s willingness to use physical violence against a victim. Additionally, all criminal justice systems are vulnerable to discrimination and error. No system is or could conceivably be capable of deciding fairly, consistently and infallibly [...]