June 25, 2000
Bill Maxwell
Some Southerners understand collateral responsibility
Southerners have a tortured relationship with their history. If they are not romanticizing it, they are denying it.
Robyn E. Blumner
Gore trying to buy mothers off
A mother's love may be priceless, but Al Gore thinks he can buy it.
Editorials
Mercy strained too fine
In Florida's criminal justice process, the courts and governor wash their hands of responsibility for executing people who are seriously mentally ill.
Letters
War on drugs breeds police corruption
The June 18 article Crime, in the name of the law turned my stomach. Besides their own lives, it sickens me to think of the other lives that the officers of the Delta squad ruined.
Editorial Notebook: Diane Roberts
The fuss over fox hunting
LONDON -- It's been a bad couple of weeks for Prime Minister Tony Blair. First he gets booed in the middle of a speech to the Women's Institute (a cross between the Junior League and the Eastern Star, with a membership larger than the Labor and Conservative parties combined). Then he saw the Tories surge to within three points of Labor, according to the latest poll.
Philip Gailey
Politicians step aside on death penalty
This country is executing convicted murderers at a faster rate than ever before. Unfortunately, just as doubting voices, including many on the conservative side of the political spectrum, are getting louder, the politicians and the celebrities jump in and cheapen the debate.
Martin Dyckman
Our country has paid bill for slavery
TALLAHASSEE -- It is astonishing to read the Declaration of Independence and reflect that the nation to which it gave birth practiced slavery on a vast scale. To that point, slavery had been the British government's moral responsibility. Thereafter, it became ours, and we haven't quite come to terms with that burden even now, almost 150 years after abolition.
