Boston Invokes the Death Penalty | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

May 19, 2015

“I understand people who think the death penalty just continues the cycle of violence,” wrote Ann O’Neill of CNN after covering the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. “But I have no idea how I'd feel if somebody killed someone I love. I suspect I'd want to execute him or her with my own hands. If you saw the trial I saw, it's not difficult to understand how, if we're going to have the death penalty, this is the type of crime it is intended to punish.”

Such textbook corporate media propaganda, of course, is designed to obscure the real motivations behind capital punishment.

Prison Nation
Of the roughly 3,100 human beings currently languishing on death row all across the Land of the Free™, some are guilty, some innocent -- but all await a grisly, taxpayer-subsidized demise. Welcome to the prison-industrial complex.

Mumia abu-Jamal sez: "The ruling, wealthy class built prisons and courts to protect them and their wealth from the masses. They also built the ideological illusion of classlessness, which is maintained through their media. They brayed about freedom, while erecting the most massive prison complex this earth has ever seen. They built Prison Nation."

The death penalty stands as a particularly malicious example of how the 1% attempts to maintain control. This sadistic and racist institution remains in effect in 34 states -- plus the U.S. government and military. California has the highest number of death row inmates, but the state that's executed the most prisoners since 1976 is (wait for it…) Texas.

Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why?

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[MannyGoldstein]

1. Boston did not invoke the death penalty

Washington did

We want no part in the thing.