All political eyes have been on Pennsylvania. Cartoonists Gary Markstein and Scott Stantis zero in on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as campaign fatigue may have set in.
The method of execution isn't the biggest problem with the death penalty. Before society can debate whether capital punishment should exist in the United States, we need to make certain that racial bias is removed from the process.
Calls for clemecy for a murderer who has had a religious conversion have a certain appeal. As columnist M.W. Guzy notes, "Conservatives could take heart in his religious conversion while
liberals could celebrate the notion that the Department of Corrections
actually rehabilitated somebody."
ABC anchors George Stephanopoulos and Charles Gibson get roasted for their ham-handed handling of the Pennsylvania debate; the Boston Herald gets absolutely snookered, and the Post-Dispatch lets down its guard. Beacon contributing editor Dick Weiss and McGraw Milhaven discuss these and other issues on the McGraw Show on KTRS-550 AM.
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