The Slaughter of the Amish Children:Just Another Day in America

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Of course, murder is sanctioned by the state. The US is the only industrialised country which will execute its citizens for 'ordinary' murders, i. e. , your everyday, run-of-the-mill, beat-the-wife-to-death stuff. The death sentence has not acted as a deterrent (and, of course, could not do so in the case of nutters who intend to kill themselves after murdering other people).

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The Slaughter of the Amish Children:Just Another Day in America

It was what the psychiatric services, with commendable understatement, often call a 'special' murder: obscure in its motive, repugnant in its selection of vulnerable and powerless victims, excessively brutal in its denouement. Charles C. Roberts, a milkman, marched into the West Nickel Mines Amish School in Lancaster County, Pennsylvan...

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