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Testimony was used to convict him have reportedly recanted. three of the jurors who convicted him say now that they would not have voted to convict if they'd known then what they know now about the case. when troy davis's execution was delayed last night at 7:00 p.m. eastern in georgia, the state of texas at the exact same time went ahead with killing a prisoner named lawrence brewer. they killed lawrence brewer for the racist hate crime murder of james byrd in texas in 1998. there was no question as to lawrence brewer's guilt. tonight the state of alabama killed a prisoner named derrick mason...

Marcus ray johnson contends that he had bad legal representation in the trial that got him the death penalty. but here, again, there's no basic question about his guilt. is the justice of the death penalty fundamentally about the goodness or badness of the person who is to be killed? is it about their guilt or innocence? or is it an intrinsic question about whether or not the governments that we build for ourselves are governments that should kill prisoners? to the extent that killing prisoners is one of the jobs we ask of state government employees, it's not an abstract thing. it is a physica...

but new york city, new york city is the only city in america, i think, that can pull off simultaneously having a chinatown, also a little italy, also a little saigon, also a koreatown, also a little pakistan, a little tokyo, a little panama, a little albania, a little you name it. new york city is not only diverse in its population, new york city is international in a way that no other city in the world, let alone this country is. but still, when the united nations general assembly convenes in new york city, even in a city like new york, you feel it. and you feel it not just because ...

new york city is not only diverse in its population, new york city is international in a way that no other city in the world, let alone this country is. but still, when the united nations general assembly convenes in new york city, even in a city like new york, you feel it. and you feel it not just because of all the traffic that it causes but because there is a sudden international influx of world leaders and their entourages and their issues. even the protests change. new york city always has protests. but it's only when the u.n. is in session that we have something like this, an a...

world, let alone this country is. but still, when the united nations general assembly convenes in new york city, even in a city like new york, you feel it. and you feel it not just because of all the traffic that it causes but because there is a sudden international influx of world leaders and their entourages and their issues. even the protests change. new york city always has protests. but it's only when the u.n. is in session that we have something like this, an anti-iran, russia, china, syria protest being led by activists from egypt, iran, palestine, syria, tunisia, and yemen. i...