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At first, Chatterbox thought perhaps Benetton didn't probe individual cases because it didn't want to demonstrate that most death-row inmates are indeed guilty.
In fact, I even feel like a wimp for having to try to curry sympathy for death-row prisoners by pointing out the procedural irregularities in their cases; I oppose executing them even when they are monsters in human form, because, while I can easily understand why someone would want to kill the murderer of their near and dear, I can't at all understand why someone would want to give the state the power to kill them--even if it's not being abused in that exact case, it's going to be, and probably sooner rather than later, as the much-publicized racial statistics of the death penalty's application demonstrate.
This elegant advertorial product intersperses color photographs of death-row inmates with somber quotations about the evils of capital punishment from Pope John Paul II, the Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King Jr., and other giants of the fashion industry.
(To check out the abbreviated Web version of Benetton's death-row advertorial, click here.)
The Texas governor can't grant clemency to a death-row prisoner, although he can grant a 30-day reprieve until a state board reviews the prisoner's plea.
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