No One's Following the Leader
Merry Christmas! My Christmas is pretty much over, the surefire sign being that Dad is now vacuuming the living room obsessively as he does every year. Instead of holiday cheer, I bring you some fascinating news, packaged in a nice news lead, or "lede", as the print-folk like to misspell it.
This year’s death-penalty bombshells — a federal moratorium, a state abolition and the smallest number of executions in more than a decade — have masked what may be the most significant and lasting development. For the first time in the modern history of the death penalty, more than 60 percent of all American executions took place in Texas.
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