Wednesday, February 15, 2006

cruel and unusual

CNN.com headline reads "Lethal injection must change before execution: Mix of drugs may be cruel and unusual punishment".

It's disgusting, the absurdity of fighting over such petty details when the death penalty itself is cruel and unusual punishment.

Apparently an apartment complex just off the ring in Mechelen was a holding place for Jews during WWII. There is, in fact, a Mechelen Museum of Deportation and Resistance in the city and, preserved nearby in Willebroek, Breendonk Fort National Memorial, a former concentration camp.

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