Bookworm on Aug 04 2008 | Filed under: Crime and punishment
A convicted murder who raped and murdered two girls in the 1980s is fighting execution on the ground that, because he is so fat, his veins are bad and it will be hard to get the right dosage for the lethal injection. He also contends that his migraine medicine will make him resistant to the [...]
Bookworm on Jul 26 2008 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Iran
News from Iran (emphasis mine):
“Thirty people convicted of murder, drug trafficking, illegal relationships… will be executed on Sunday at dawn,” the Aftab newspaper quoted Tehran’s prosecutor office as saying.
Illegal relationships would be rape, adultery or homosexuality.
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Bookworm on Jul 15 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, England
In a bizarre act of unexpected intelligence, the British government passed a law allowing Brits to defend themselves in their own homes (and on the streets) without fear of reprisal — not from the burglars within, but from the government forces without:
Home owners and “have-a go-heroes” have for the first time been given the legal [...]
Bookworm on Jul 01 2008 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Immigration, Judges, Mexico
Back in 1989, Bay Area locals were stunned to learn of a horrific massacre up in Sonoma County:
[Ramon] Salcido, now 47, used a gun and knife to murder his wife, Angela Richards Salcido, 24; their daughters, 4-year-old Sofia and 22-month-old Teresa; his mother-in-law, Marion Richards, 47; her daughters, 12-year-old Ruth and 8-year-old Maria; and Tracey [...]
Bookworm on Jun 19 2008 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Judges, Judicial activism
The alternative title for this post would have been: You’re in prison, not a hotel. From Best of the Web Today:
He Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly
Henry Boateng is an inmate in a Massachusetts State prison. He went to court arguing that his rights were being violated. Yesterday, a federal judge agreed:
Boateng, who has changed his name [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Crime and punishment, Judges
Here’s the headline: “Judge admits mistake in kicking whites out of court.” Upon reading that headline, I assumed that this was going to be the familiar story about some crackpot anti-white judge who issued a ruling, a la the Jeremiah White mode of thinking, that blacks can’t get a fair trial with whites [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, Crime and punishment, Police
I blogged yesterday about law enforcement run amok, in connection with the decision to prosecute a mother who left a sleeping child in the car, while she walked a few feet away — something every mother in the world has done. As you may recall, I was quite heated in expounding upon the idiocy [...]
Bookworm on Mar 12 2008 | Filed under: Crime and punishment
Dennis Prager often states that being kind to violent criminals almost inevitably means being unkind to their future victims. Now, I don’t know whether the two men whose criminal records are described below walked off lightly because of liberal criminal policies or the overload of the criminal justice system, but they certainly had bad records [...]
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