death penalty

Should Members Of Congress Pay For Their Complicity In Mass Gun Slaughter?

If you read DWT with any regularity you probably know we're pretty tough on law and order around here. This isn't an "abolish the death penalty" blog. This is a "let's use the death penalty much more" kind of blog-- albeit not until we have a perfected justice system that doesn't penalize suspects for being minorites or for poverty. Once that's all set, you better hope I'm not ever a judge.

The Vendetta of the Bangladeshi Government: Motiur Rahman Nizami

The leader of the political party, the Bangladeshi Jamaat Islami, was executed on the 11th of May, 2016, having being given a death sentence for genocide, rape, and torture. But there is an important and under-represented perspective hiding from the international public: the corruption, lack of judicial independence, and political motivations behind the sentence.