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Demoiselle

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1. Wouldn't a "permanent moratorium on capital punishment" unclog the court system?

Reply to Mira (Original post)

Wed Dec 14, 2011, 12:40 PM

Dec 2011

....Or, at least, make an appeal a less frantic process.
Just asking. And as long as I'm asking, is there any other "Western Industrialized Country" that still wages the death penalty. (That's not a rhetorical question, I don't know.)

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Wouldn't a "permanent moratorium on capital punishment" unclog the court system? Demoiselle Dec 2011 #1

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