This article contains news with liberal commentary. A Florida judge has affirmed a jury’s death sentence for a 41-year-old Jamaica-born man convicted of raping and killing his neighbor’s 9-year-old daughter (photo, left), ABC News reported on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. The defendant’s[...]
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On the Death Penalty
I agree with the Supreme Court that there ought not be a requirement that execution of criminals be painless. I also oppose the death penalty. I suspect that death is for many murderers neither a punishment or a deterrent. Arguments against the death penalty are overwhelming. Certainly our[...]
How to Make Our Schools Safe
ProTecht, a company in Oklahoma, has created yhe Bodyguard Blanket to protect kids during school shootings. The blanket made from the same materials used in military and law enforcement body armor be carried at all times as a backpack. The Bodyguard comes with a price tag under $1,000. Even [...]
Maricopa County injustice system reaps another black eye
When you mention law enforcement in Maricopa County, Arizona, most people think of Crazy Sheriff Joe Arpaio, infamous for his racism, far-right politics, and anti-Obama birther nuttery. But this case arose from the Phoenix Police Department, not Arpaio’s shop, before being mishandled by Maric[...]
Would you execute this inmate?
Barry Van Treese, a Tulsa motel owner, was brutally beaten to death with a baseball bat in a motel room. His killer, Justin Sneed, was sentenced to life imprisonment. The prosecutor dropped the death penalty against Sneed in exchange for his testimony that Richard Glossip hired him to kill Van Trees[...]
It is hard to get a scrip to kill folks in Missouri!
Missouri scrambles for lethal drugs Apothecary Shoppe agrees with the lawyers for inmate scheduled to be executed to stop providing lethal dose of pentobarbital. Funny, a gentle death is not considered cruel and unusual but amputation or someones hand id?[...]
A Death Penalty Reprieve That Should Make You Think
Mississippi’s attorney general did everything he could to make sure Michelle Byrom would be executed on schedule last week. Her husband was shot in bed in 1999. She couldn’t have pulled the trigger, because she was in a hospital with pneumonia at the time, but a jury convicted her of hir[...]