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16 Aug 2011, 9:06 am by Steve Hall
The lawyer for death-row inmate Carey Dean Moore is asking to depose Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning and other state officials in an effort to get to the bottom of why they continued to push for his client's execution when they did not have a legal drug on hand to put him to death.In a filing late Monday in Douglas County District Court, Jerry Soucie of the Nebraska Commission on Public Advocacy argued it was cruel and unusual punishment to allow Moore to think his execution was… [read post]
5 Jun 2008, 7:15 pm
(What that reaction most decidedly did not rest on: fear and loathing of “hippies,” which were unknown, except in California, to most of the nation until 1967; or antiwar activists, which were not associated with either party, because Republicans and Democrats had about an equal number of hawks and doves in 1966.)When I learned that the papers of Senator Paul Douglas were at the Chicago Historical Society (as it was known then; now it’s cursed with the… [read post]