Mirror of Justice

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Friday, November 11, 2016

Assisted suicide adopted in Colorado; Blaine Amendment survives in Oklahoma; the Death Penalty reinstated in Nebraska

Assisted suicide -- or, the euphemism "dignity in dying" -- was embraced overwhelmingly in Colorado.  The anti-Catholic (and, in any event, foolish) Blaine Amendment was retained in Oklahoma; and Nebraska brought back capital punishment (after it had been abolished in the way, in my view, it should be, i.e., legislatively and not judicially).  

https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2016/11/assisted-suicide-adopted-in-colorado-blaine-amendment-survives-in-oklahoma-the-death-penalty-reinsta.html

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