... kill to stop the killing. Irony seems to be lost on the religious. As comedian George Carlin once remarked, "What is murdering a doctor if not abortion in the sixtieth trimester?" Dennis Miller summed up the dangers of vigilantism in a rant against the so-called "Religious Right": "I'm sorry, you just don't go shooting doctors. If a judgment's to be made, God gets to ... ...

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... brought these arguments before the Supreme Court. They brought forth a number of cases to the Court. One of these was McGautha v. California, in which the Court considered the appeal of Dennis McGautha, who had been convicted of committing a murder during robbery. The jury had sentenced him to death but the NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys argued that the jury did not ... ...

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