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SATIRE: How Capital Punishment Can Be Fun For The Whole Family!! [white families]

Posted by Lee Camp at 6:00 AM on August 21, 2009.


Do you know the #1 determinant of whether the defendant in a murder trial gets executed?
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Troy Davis just earned a retrial of his wrongful execution sentence. Do you know the #1 determinant of whether the defendant in a murder trial gets executed? The answer may surprise you.

 

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Lee Camp is a comedian and writer in NYC. He tours clubs and colleges across the country, writes for Huffington Post and 236.com, and does comedic commentary for various television shows (but no longer Fox News).


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What a playful attempt at cleverness with regard to state-sanctioned executions.
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Posted by: ABetterFuture on Aug 23, 2009 9:32 AM   
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The oh-so-funny analysis, that lampoons the fact that folks who kill black people don't get the death penalty as often leads one to believe that more black people need to have the state shuffle them off the mortal coil, in order to achieve..."equality" of outcomes.

I firmly disapprove of the death penalty, because of the margin for error, and the wasteful process and greedy lawyers who it singularly benefits.

I find the lament that more black folks aren't put to death every year was a focus of an alternut writer...

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» It's a logical extension. Posted by: ABetterFuture