Showing posts with label Capital Punishment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Capital Punishment. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker, Courting Death

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At Amazon, Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker, Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment .
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Death Penalty Isn't Going Away in California

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Apparently, the battle over the death penalty in California isn't going away, despite the failure of the recent voter initiative to ban...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Efforts to End Death Row in California

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I've got to bone up on this. We've got two competing voter initiatives on the November ballot. At LAT, " On death row, the ef...
Sunday, November 8, 2015

16 Death Row Inmates Have Exhausted Appeals, Could Be Executed, Under New California Single-Drug Method for Capital Punishment

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It's not likely these dudes would get the hot needle anytime soon. The new protocol is itself subject to appeal. Frankly, we should ju...
Thursday, October 1, 2015

Kelly Gissendaner Executed, Georgia's First Woman Put to Death Since 1945

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At the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, " Gissendaner executed ": Before the drugs that were to kill her were administered, Kelly G...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty — #BostonBombing

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On Twitter right now, and I'm glad. BREAKING NEWS: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be sentenced to death for the Marathon bombing http://t.co/Ic...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Supreme Court Will Review Use of Lethal Injections

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At USA Today : WASHINGTON -- In a case that could have broad implications for hundreds of death row inmates, the Supreme Court will consid...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Charles Warner, Black Mofo Dead-Man-Walking, to Be Executed Today for Rape and Murder of 11-Month-Old Baby

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Hopefully, it'll be a botched execution and the motherfucker will go down in excruciatingly caustic pain from the burning, death-bringin...
Monday, January 5, 2015

Europe Hasn't Abolished Capital Punishment: Frank Van Den Bleeken, Murderer and Rapist, to Be 'Euthanized' in Humanitarian Gesture

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See, for Europe's progressive left, state sponsored murder is just fine. Fine and dandy. As long as it's justified not in terms of &...
Friday, December 19, 2014

Capital Punishment's Decline

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Well, thanks to the " evolving standards of decency ." At LAT, " Capital punishment in U.S. continues its decline ": ...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Arizona 2-Hour Execution Rekindles Debate on Death Penalty

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A federal judge argued this week to bring back the firing squad, and that's where the debate should be going --- toward functionally mo...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Connecticut Teenager Stabbed to Death Over High School Prom Rejection

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Now this is senseless. At NYT, " Connecticut Teenager Is Fatally Stabbed by Fellow Student, Police Say ." A 16-year-old stude...
Friday, January 17, 2014

Ohio Killer Executed with New Drug Cocktail, Dude Gasps While Dying, Leftists Freak Out

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You know, you might gasp when your veins are flooded with poison like that. And it took longer than expected? Okay, the f-ker's dead, al...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

Voters Reject Death Penalty Repeal in California

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The defeat of Proposition 34 was one bright spot in an otherwise deathly blue election in California on Tuesday. At the Los Angeles Times...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Carol Chambers, Arapahoe County District Attorney: Decision on James Holmes Death Penalty 'Months Away'

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At Telegraph UK, " Colorado shooting: 'death penalty decision is months down the line' ." And CNN, " Death penalty de...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

'The important thing is to ensure the neck snaps and there’s a quick death...'

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Well, that's an Althouse-style title for the post, but that's who first came to mind when reading this piece at Los Angeles Times , ...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

VIDEO: Man Beheaded in Saudi Arabia for 'Sorcery'

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At London's Daily Mail , " The moment man was publicly beheaded in a Saudi Arabian car park for being a 'sorcerer' ." ...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Georgia Executes Cop Killer Troy Davis: Progressive Heads Explode

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I went to bed last night upon hearing the news that the Supreme Court was granting an 11th hour review. I didn't hear anything more unti...
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