The Davis Case
Should Troy Davis be executed? That’s the question the Supreme Court is pondering right now. He was supposed to be executed tonight for a 1989 murder of a cop. But doubts have been raised about his...
View ArticleLos Dos Carlos
It’s cases like this that make my support of the death penalty waver: Carlos DeLuna was executed in 1989 for stabbing to death a gas station clerk in Corpus Christi six years earlier. It was a ghastly...
View ArticleDead Weight
Here’s a new one, too fat to be executed, only in America folks: Lawyers for a 480-pound death row inmate in Ohio say their client is too overweight to be put to death. “Indeed, given his unique...
View ArticleMcCollum and Brown Freed
Chalk another exoneration up to DNA evidence: Thirty years after their convictions in the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in rural North Carolina, based on confessions that they quickly...
View ArticleFriday Quick Hits
A few stories I haven’t gotten time for full blog posts on: I kind of like Bernie Sanders as a candidate. Not because I agree with him on anything — I don’t. And not because I’d vote for him — I...
View ArticleCourt Season
The Supreme Court is set to issue a number of landmark ruling this month (saving them for the end of the session, as usual). You can read Doug Mataconis or Evan Bernick for good conservative takes....
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