The recent conviction of Lucy Letby for murdering seven babies led to some talk on local news sites of reintroducing the death penalty for murder. This is actually a perennial subject, one that is raised regularly when a serial killer is brought to book or some terrorist outrage is inflicted on innocent people. There are […]
This March, Uganda passed tough new laws against homosexuality, while Greece has been kicking out illegal immigrants. These disparate acts have been condemned by the usual suspects, but both countries are doubling down. This is to be welcomed, although it must be admitted that the Ugandan Government has gone a tad too far. Both Greece […]
Edward Curtin The world has been haunted by human violence since time immemorial. There are untold millions (billions?) of people all over the world who have been scarred by it in all its forms. There are two basic responses: one is to try to return that violence with violence and defeat one’s enemy; the other …
The United States has executed a grand total of 18 people this year, all of them men. The last was Thomas Edwin Loden on December 14. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, two more were scheduled for this month, but both have been postponed and it appears unlikely they will ever be executed. All […]
The outgoing Governor of Oregon has commuted the sentences of all prisoners on death row. Kate Brown is a Democrat. Are you surprised? She was quoted by one news outlet as saying the death penalty “cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.” Quite right, last year ten men but only one woman […]
Great reformers are not normally found in theocratic monarchies. Despite assertions to the contrary, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia remains archaic in the way it deals with its opponents. In its penal system, executions remain standard fare. With liberal democratic countries fixated with the Ukraine conflict and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, it was prudent for Saudi authorities to capitalise. On March[Read More...]
Dustin Higgs proclaimed his innocence until the end, but neither his nor his lawyers' pleas for clemency were enough to overcome the three-hundred-year momentum of capitalism's most enduring tradition.
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders – Albert Camus What could be worse than death? The answer perhaps would be to know exactly when one is going to die. Locked up in a condemned cell, time crawls like a snail for someone who is on death row. Every waking hour of the day and night, the thought of[Read More...]
As reported here last October, Lisa Montgomery was scheduled to be executed last month for the unspeakable crime of a foetal abduction – the murder of heavily pregnant mother Bobbie Jo Stinnett and cutting the baby out of her body. No further description is needed except to say that such a crime is horrific beyond […]
Measuring Trump the Man: Pardons and Capital Punishment Among the disquieting dimensions of this strangest of all Christmas holidays has been the lurid spectacle of misplaced empathy by Donald Trump, placatingcronies and criminals who helped him circumvent law and morality while exhibiting hard heartedness toward those unfortunate souls awaiting execution on death row in federal […]
