What do you call placing someone who has only been charged with a crime (not even convicted) in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, without a pillow or a blanket, for six straight months? Torture.
Incidentally, where was this form of torture invented? Philadelphia.
In other cruelty-related news, former Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens has an interesting review of a book on the death penalty in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books.
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Emmett, Do you have a Google alert set up for "Things that suck about Philadelphia"?
ReplyDeleteNo; the evidence is so abundant that it finds its way to me every time....
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