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Would this mean that states holding onto the death penalty are those with deeper social problems? Is it worth noting that besides the U.S., those who still carry out the death penalty are (for the most part) most of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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