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Bravo Washington
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Bravo Washington
October 11, 2018 at 10:30 pm
No, the state not DC which is presently run by fucking morons.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45831849

Quote:Washington state abolishes death penalty

Quote:Washington has become has become the 20th US state to ban the death penalty, after its Supreme Court ruled the punishment was applied in an "arbitrary and racially biased manner".

Quote:Following the decision, Governor Jay Inslee tweeted he had "long been convinced that the death penalty in the state of Washington does not pass" the test of equal justice.

"We know that zip code and race are likely determinants of whether an accused criminal is sentenced to death," he added. "There has been nothing equal, or fair, or just, about that
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RE: Bravo Washington
October 12, 2018 at 1:47 am
Great

Yay, us!
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RE: Bravo Washington
October 12, 2018 at 1:52 am
The death penalty: an unnatural form of population control.
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RE: Bravo Washington
October 12, 2018 at 1:58 am
Issue with OP: no mention of legal pot. An oversight?
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RE: Bravo Washington
October 12, 2018 at 2:01 am
People day have a 140 character attention span and you want to put two different ideas in one news story?

You're such an optimist, Vulc!
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RE: Bravo Washington
October 12, 2018 at 2:16 am
This is good news, indeed!
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RE: Bravo Washington
October 12, 2018 at 3:36 am
(October 12, 2018 at 1:58 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Issue with OP: no mention of legal pot. An oversight?

P.S. we have legal pot. No, we don't execute anyone with it, at least not any longer.
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RE: Bravo Washington
October 12, 2018 at 9:59 am
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RE: Bravo Washington
October 12, 2018 at 10:05 am
FUCKING LIBERALS with their pesky sanity.
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RE: Bravo Washington
October 12, 2018 at 10:31 am
(October 12, 2018 at 10:05 am)Brian37 Wrote: FUCKING LIBERALS with their pesky sanity.

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