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american bloodlust: can anyone explain it to me?

by edrie
Tue Dec 13th, 2005 at 05:00:25 AM EST

tonite, here in california - the state just committed murder in my name.  not with my permission, but it did it anyway.

stanley tookie williams was executed by the state and was pronounced dead at 12:35 am, after a prolonged and macabre ritual of state-sanctioned euthanasia.  

i don't understand.  i am not trying to debate the guilt or innocence of williams, i am trying to understand why my country has such need for bloodletting!

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