I think Tsarnaev is probably one of them.

It's too bad the case wasn't over a few weeks ago, or we could have discussed it in Contemporary Moral Issues in our Death Penalty unit.

How many of the people who are calling for the castration of the eighteen suspects (in other words, people who have not yet even been tried in court) in the gang rape of that eleven year old in Texas also applauded the Illinois legislature and governor for abolishing the death penalty in our great state earlier this week ( Read more... )

Activists lack curiosity. They don't need to be curious, because they already have all the answers. If they didn't have all the answers, they'd probably be curious about them, and then they might look into things and find answers that didn't agree with the rest of the activists, which would put more things into question (i.e. if this tenet of ( Read more... )

I think these three are among those. A mother allows her boyfriend and his brother to torture her infant son for more than a year (because babies need toughening up, you know), until they go too far and the baby is killed . . . and England plans to protect these people if they survive their prison sentences? So, what, maybe she can have another ( Read more... )

Two more weeks for cougarridgegame. Then I plan to take a sabbatical from on-line gaming. Maybe permanently. The last few months of CR have been really, really stressful and depressing for me. I have one person who has expressed interest in taking over the game from me, but they only want to do it if it's actually active, and it doesn't look like it will be ( Read more... )

I'm sure there will be appeals, but I think the jury in the Lisa Montgomery trial came to the right conclusion.