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Death penalty, shot through with racism, cannot be fixed

Death penalty, shot through with racism, cannot be fixed

Former Justice John Paul Stevens say capital punishment is "shot through with racism, skewed toward conviction, infected with politics and tinged with hysteria." It's  past time to end the practice.

BY: Jarvis Tyner| December 21, 2010
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WTTW Chicago remembers communist Frank Lumpkin, 93

WTTW Chicago remembers communist Frank Lumpkin, 93

Frank Lumpkin, steel workers, labor activist and communist passed away in Chicago March 1 at the age of 93.

March 10, 2010
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