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This week is shaping up to be a very bad one for death penalty opponents in the United States. All told, this week’s execution spree should unsettle all Americans, whether or not they support the death penalty. Williams’ conviction, like Allah’s, Newsweek suggests, “turned on the testimony of two unreliable witnesses who were incentivized by promises of leniency in their …