In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
With the recent botched execution in Tennessee, let us look back half-a-century when the question of the death penalty was an even more contentious question that it was now, as this debate between William F. Buckley, Jr., Ernest van den Haag, and Donald E. Shapiro demonstrates.
Until next Friday.
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