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Prof. Dow, that was a very thoughtful piece. As someone who does a fair amount of death penalty work inside an appellate court (which more than once has left me sobbing), I've come to the conclusion that the power to take life is an inherent attribute of sovereignty. The American people want this power; whether it’s deliberately exercised at the end of a judicial process; on the battlefield; as a foreseeable but regrettable consequence of a costs/benefits analysis, or the best of bad options. Some civilizations chose not to exercise that power. Not exercising power is not our thing.
We set safety standards, speed limits, national policy, knowing that some number of innocent people will die. Less would die if we did something else, at the cost of some utility or benefit or another. As you say, I fly anyway.
Troy Davis: Why Poster Boys Don't Matter
David R. Dow, the Cullen Professor at the University of Houston Law Center and the Rorschach Visiting Professor at Rice University, has represented death row inmates for more than twenty years. His books include Executed on a Technicality and The Autobiography of an Execution. There were hundr...
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Mar 15, 2011
Just bought Memories. Your podcasts got me to buy the audio versions of Just a Geek and Happiest Days of Our Lives, and man, it's eery how many of my own emotional experiences are right there, even though the shape of our lives (the geekdom aside) are so very different. I gotta get my husband to listen to them; his are even closer. Thank you for being so emotionally raw. That takes guts and insight.
In which Memories of the Future Volume One is released
I am beyond excited to announce the release of my newest book, Memories of the Future, Volume One. I worked harder on this book than anything since Just a Geek, and it wouldn't have been possible without a bunch of people, who I thank in the book, but wanted to thank here, as well: Andrew Hacka...
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