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Life & Death/Revenge & Justice | Mickey Z.
PHoto credit: Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust
May 12, 2013
"Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders."
- Albert Camus
For a wide variety of reasons, I rarely write specifically about high profile mainstream news spectacles, but the Cleveland kidnapping story contains a broad range of socially relevant angles.
For example, while Ariel Castro is being charged with rape and kidnapping, Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy McGinty may also bring aggravated murder charges in connection with the pregnancies that were terminated by force.
Such charges, McGinty was quick to clarify, are “punishable by death.” The death penalty is applicable under Ohio law, he explained, for the "most depraved criminals.”
Such a textbook propaganda scenario, of course, doesn’t hold up after even a cursory examination of capital punishment.
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http://worldnewstrust.com/life-a-deathrevenge-a-justice-mickey-z
