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Entries from September 2009

The cost of convicting innocents…

September 17th, 2009 No Comments

The Duke Human Rights Center was lucky to be a part of an event marking the end of an art exhibition examining the human cost of capital punishment. Malaquias Montoya, the artist, is well known for his political work (and his images are familiar to me from having lived in Berkeley in the 1980s and [...]

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If Americans torture…

September 14th, 2009 No Comments

“If Americans torture and it comes to light — as it inevitably will — it embitters and alienates the very people we need most.“
Charles C. Krulak was commandant of the Marine Corps from 1995 to 1999. Joseph P. Hoar was commander in chief of U.S. Central Command from 1991 to 1994.
Some of the most hard-hitting [...]

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