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WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in nearly three years, a month passed with no executions in the United States.
No death sentences were carried out in October, as judges and elected officials effectively halted executions following the Supreme Court’s decision to rule on lethal injection procedures in a case from Kentucky.
The last month with no inmate put to death was December 2004.
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The only execution that has not been formally called off this year is in Florida, where Mark Dean Schwab is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Nov. 15. The Florida Supreme Court is considering a request to stop it.
New work from eight poets, Dale Wisely, Jilly Dybka, Ross White, Leslie Joseph, Jessie Carty, Evie Shockley, Tim Peeler and Carter Monroe, will be published on or about November 20. I am completing an interview with Evie Shockley that will be online the same day. Photographs by Bill Losse will be published at this time. Other genres will be online later.
The Dead Mule, under the editorship of Valerie MacEwan, publishes southern literature, as it has done for over ten years, but please remember we’re a family not a publication credit. All Mule editors put their families’ needs and their own health before Mule work. We have lives. We solve problems. We get sick. We have limited time, but we do work hard on the Mule.
We change our publication date from time to time due to any or none of the reasons stated above. And as we have stated previously, all poems will be left justified. To post them otherwise is just too time consuming. We don’t need this issue to cause us as many problems as the last one did. We hope our poets understand and tread softly; we are people. Think of editors as your “poetic parents.” LOL
Helen Losse
Poetry Editor
The Church is called to announce the Good News of Jesus to all people and all nations. Besides the many works of mercy by which the Church must make Jesus’ love visible, it must also joyfully announce the great mystery of God’s salvation through the life, suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus. The story of Jesus is to be proclaimed and celebrated. Some will hear and rejoice, some will remain indifferent, some will become hostile. The story of Jesus will not always be accepted, but it must be told.
We who know the story and try to live it out, have the joyful task of telling it to others. When our words rise from hearts full of love and gratitude, they will bear fruit, whether we can see this or not.
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