Response to "Begging the Question" blog

To: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 "This is some nasty--" Not knowing exactly where I am here, I was at the opening of New York state's only run law school when it opened in Buffalo, NY, just after the "police riot" at Attica State Prison not too far from it as an anthropology student from the back doors of Stony Brook University, which got the medical school instead of the law school. What I've read is that the penalty causes more police deaths not less statistically argued in an editorial in the NY Times. The last public hanging was in Mayville, NY (around 1908?) which I was in when a young African-American was going to be "hung" for being HIV positive and sleeping around with underage white girls, fortunately he was wanted in another jurisdiction and was extradited to the Bronx first, where the D.A. often confronts the Governor's "wishes". My elementary school teacher's step-father scooped the press with a camera tied to his calf in Chicago when they gave the first woman there the "chair" and I saw the touched up original as a youngster so I am opposed to it in general, as much of the rest of the world is with whom former President Carter signed the treaty with to limit it to adults. I feel it is still a very important issue and regret the Supreme Court's decision to "bring it back" in what its consequences have been, including Other countries citizens not correctly represented by legal defense from their country of origin (Mexicans in America, the French "20th hijacker", prisoners in Gitmo, etc.) The Buffalo Law School opened behind schedule.