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Ann Arbor [Michigan] News ^ | February 11, 2007 | John Carlos Cant

Posted on 02/11/2007 4:45:46 PM PST by ellen_rometsch

There's an unsettlingly prosaic quality to "Texas Death Row: Executions by Lethal Injection'' that's bone chilling and distressing.

The exhibit, at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities new Exhibition Space, consists of 370 mug shots of executed convicts, as well as a chronological list on a gallery wall of these convicts and their victims.

As the gallery's curator, author and producer Bill Crawford, tells us in his introduction, "At midnight on Dec. 7, 1982, the state of Texas conducted the first execution by lethal injection in the U.S. In the 25 years since that time, Texas has conducted more than 370 executions by lethal injection - far more than any other state and most other countries in the world.''

(Excerpt) Read more at mlive.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: deathpenalty
Michigan doesn't have a death penalty. I wish we did.
1 posted on 02/11/2007 4:45:47 PM PST by ellen_rometsch
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To: ellen_rometsch

So they show photos of the convicts, but only list the names of their victims? How about showing crime scene/autopsy photos, and family photos of the victims?


2 posted on 02/11/2007 4:50:57 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (L'Chaim!)
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To: ellen_rometsch

If there were a display of all the unborn killed in Michigan through abortion, it would be thousands of times larger -- but the arts community would ban it for its "tastelessness.


3 posted on 02/11/2007 4:51:03 PM PST by docbnj
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To: ellen_rometsch

370 and still counting.


4 posted on 02/11/2007 4:51:38 PM PST by encm(ss) (USN Ret.)
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To: ellen_rometsch

And on the other wall... the 2000-some-od victims pictures
(yeah, right)


5 posted on 02/11/2007 4:52:47 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: ellen_rometsch

One definition of a liberal: he who cares infinitely more about the criminal than about the victims of crime.

They are so desperate to "humanize" these murderers that they just about forgot there were people murdered by them. Oh, how generous, they give the "names" of the murder victims while glorifying the murderers. Even the murderers themselves would have approved of that much, as a form of boasting....


6 posted on 02/11/2007 4:55:30 PM PST by Enchante (Chamberlain Democrats embraced by terrorists and America-haters worldwide!!)
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To: ellen_rometsch
..far more than any other state and most other countries in the world.''

Far more lethal injections than any other country or executions? I'm calling bs if they are simply counting executions.

As for Michigan, as long as your state is dumb enough to keep Granholm in office despite an awful economy, you guys have no shot. The GOP needs to get off their asses up their and start hitting the pavement. It's a sad day when the voters consider a flop like Granholm more worthy than the GOP candidate.

7 posted on 02/11/2007 5:01:03 PM PST by MovementConservative (The US will win in Iraq. Thank you all US troops.)
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To: ellen_rometsch
I spit on the man who "curated" this exhibit. I spit on the reporter who wrote this story, and the editor of its publication. There is ZERO factual information about the men, women and children who were tortured, raped, burned, shot, stabbed, by these criminals.

Had that information been presented, then this exhibit would have been "neutral" on the death penalty. But it wasn't.

Congressman Billybob

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8 posted on 02/11/2007 5:35:41 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (Please get involved: www.ArmorforCongress.com)
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To: ellen_rometsch

There are easy solutions for those who have "issues" with capital punishment in TX:

If you're a murderer, don't do it here.

If you have philosophical problems with capital punishment in general, find another place to live.

Problems solved.


10 posted on 02/11/2007 6:31:09 PM PST by Felis_irritable (Dirty_Felis_Irritable...)
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To: ellen_rometsch

So since I live in Texas I'm supposed to be ashamed? Well I'm not!


11 posted on 02/11/2007 6:48:11 PM PST by Menehune56 (Oderint Dum Metuant (Let them hate, so long as they fear - Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)))
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To: ellen_rometsch

How many criminals Texas executes is no business to any Michigan yankee.


12 posted on 02/11/2007 7:09:08 PM PST by Shellback Chuck
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To: ellen_rometsch

Two of those fellows who dragged James Byrd to death over in Vidor, TX, got the death penalty. I don't remember whether either has been executed yet, anyone else remember?

I wonder if their pictures were included, and whether James Byrd's name was included in the list of victims. Probably not if no execution has yet taken place. But wouldn't that put the liberals in a state of cognitive dissonance.

In the interest of full disclosure I will point out that I am uncertain about the death penalty, but I agree strongly with a prior poster - if you disagree with capital punishment, don't live in Texas and by all means don't commit a capital crime here.


13 posted on 02/11/2007 7:29:51 PM PST by Katy Deacon (He must increase, and I must decrease)
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To: MovementConservative

Unfortunately Granholm, born a Canadian, was re-elected by a wide margin. We have two Democrat U.S. Senators so that gives you some idea regarding our voters.

Michigan has never had the death penalty and we became a state in 1837. I don't really know why.


14 posted on 02/11/2007 9:21:24 PM PST by ellen_rometsch (The Kingdom is not of this earth.)
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To: LibFreeOrDie
How about showing crime scene/autopsy photos, and family photos of the victims?

I imagine most victims' families would prefer not to see crime scene/autopsy photos publicly displayed.

Generally the murderers looked pretty nasty, if the intent was to create sympathy for them I don't think it was very successful. Some of them looked completely ordinary, and there's a lesson there too. Being that this is Ann Arbor and this is a University of Michigan exhibit I also think that the intent most likely was to make the viewer pity the poor murderer. Didn't work with me.

15 posted on 02/11/2007 9:36:26 PM PST by ellen_rometsch (The Kingdom is not of this earth.)
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To: Katy Deacon

As best as I can tell Shawn Allen Berry and Lawrence Russel Brewer haven't had their sentences carried out yet.


16 posted on 02/11/2007 10:06:33 PM PST by ellen_rometsch (The Kingdom is not of this earth.)
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To: Katy Deacon
Corrections: John William King and Lawrence Russell Brewer are the two that received the death penalty.

According to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice web-site, King and Brewer and not yet scheduled for execution.

17 posted on 02/11/2007 10:24:04 PM PST by ellen_rometsch (The Kingdom is not of this earth.)
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