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  • Re: Murderers and Rapists

    Life in prison versus the death sentence... The first argument that comes to mind is which one do you think is cruel and unusual? A. You have wronged your fellows and are very to likely to continue down this path so; your life is forfeit. or B. You have wronged your fellows and are very likely to continue down this path so; you are to be ...
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by Den on April 18, 2008

  • Murderers and Rapists

    Rapists destroy lives. With brutal violence, with cruelty, and with a complete disregard for any humanity present in their victims. They kill the person that was there before their attack. While not commonly physically lethal, rape scars the mind, it damages natural social responses, and can, and has, harmed people so completely that they ...
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by Den on April 17, 2008

  • Ask the Pope - Supreme Court and the Death Penalty

    Perfect timing, on his second day in the US the Supreme Court approves the use of lethal injection. What would the pope say ?
    Posted to Fighting Words by jerseyview on April 16, 2008

  • Mayville, NY

    I was in Mayville, the county seat out on Lake Chautauqua a number of years ago around Halloween, in a diner just down the hill from the last public hanging in the state of New York. Across the street at the county courthouse was the media van with its satellite up link. A young man had been arrested for allegedly knowing he had AIDS, had sex with ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by georgejmyersjr on April 14, 2008

  • So being an American citizen doesn't get you much?

    So I guess this means that if you're unfortunate enough to be an American citizen in a foreign country a.k.a Iraq, you're bascially screwed and no better than those pesky insurgents who keep blowing up things. Let me see, if I have my passport and birth certificate that states that I was stupid enough to be born here, then I automatically wave my ...
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by curveball on March 26, 2008

  • Re: Playing devil's advocate

    BigShot: There have been 213 post-conviction DNA exonerations in United States history. These stories are becoming more familiar as more innocent people gain their freedom through postconviction testing. They are not proof, however, that our system is righting itself. BigShot, did they explain in the documents you found why these exonerations ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by silent.observer on February 18, 2008

  • I don't understand why this is so complicated

    This is the second article in Slate that heavily implies that the only people who could possibly have an input on the death penalty issue are those rabidly for it or rabidly against it. It says that those (rabidly) for it don't want to see it made gentler, because they want these people to suffer. And those (rapidly) against it don't want it to ...
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by TrentonZero on January 8, 2008

  • Re: Let me know if this hurts...

    The way I see it capitol punishemnt as it's carried out, or not, in America is terminally flawed. We have the death penalty but it can take years to enforce it. The cost of keeping inmates long enough to actually put them to death is incredibly high. The death penalty has been shown to be no more effective in preventing first time offenders ...
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by shawhan86 on January 8, 2008

  • Doctors and IVs

    If Justice Souter really wants to know what cruel and inhumane punishment is, go to the hospital and have a doctor insert an IV. The Justice's objection that a doctor ought to be the one putting in the needle (and the lame response from the Kentucky counsel that such work is ''scut work'') shows that neither of them are very familiar with ...
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by KenR1029 on January 8, 2008

  • Let me know if this hurts...

    I can't help but think about the victims - the people these inmates murdered - when I read the arguments about lethal injections. The VICTIMS are the ones who should be first and foremost in our minds when executing these criminals. For God's sake - do you think the murderers took their victims feelings, comfort level, and pain thresholds into ...
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by cricket on January 8, 2008
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