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RedditDEATH PENALTY: LEGALIZED LYNCHING?
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Ira Glasser, in "Drug Busts = Jim Crow" [July 10], is right to see the drug war as rooted in a legacy of legalized racial discrimination; however, it is not unique in this regard. Just as the current drug war can be traced to Jim Crow, so is the modern system of capital punishment--thirty years old this year--a direct descendant of lynching.
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