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The Best of 2022: Neil Pasricha winds and wades through wandering wisdoms

3 Books With Neil Pasricha

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The Death Penalty - The Supreme Court's Fear of Too Much Justice

In 1972, after most countries in Europe had also recently abolished the death penalty, the US Supreme Court struck it down. The court said a certain quantum of discrimination, a certain level of racial bias in the death penalty is, quote, inevitable in our system. And so for the last 40 years, we've been pushing states to recognize that this is not a just space. This is not a healthy space. But we have made progress. There are. You can have a cool in here. We even think we wouldn't torture someone who's being nominally tortured because we realize that that does something to the human spirit. But somehow we want people who kill as if we can be insulated from

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