CNN on Graham

[Michael Hoover]

> Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> >death penalty is a sacrificial
> >ritual that symbolically re-establishes social order disrupted by crime.
> 
> Or you could say that it perpetuates the cycle of violence. The 
> southern states, where they love to execute people, are also among 
> the most homicidal. I suppose you could argue that the more murders 
> you have, the more you need your healing rituals of execution, but 
> isn't that just a tad ghoulish?
> Doug

Some guy named Fred Engels wrote a few years ago:
'capital punishment is nothing but blood revenge in a civilized form' -
_Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State_
Michael Hoover (who'd disagree with FE's use of 'civilized')