Utah’s Peculiar Death Penalty
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[…] so unreasonably heinous that photographs of the body made grown men turn away. And we talked, this human butcher and I, from mid night until morning. I listened to his stories and he to […]
[…] look more at symbols than behavior, see a much greater difference prevailing. Observers of Mormon artistic and humanistic life have often felt that a distinctive Mormon essence does exist, or at least ought to. […]
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