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I channel-surfed upon two excellent programs on C-span and C-span2 this evening–kind of sounds like a conspiracy that C-span would be showing programs Ned would consider “excellent” during the infomercials time slot, doesn’t it? Oh well.
One program was a panel with Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia. Very instructive about the contrasting perceptions [...]
Seeing as anti-capital punishment activists in America succeed–through frivolous appeals and demagoguery, in rendering our death penalty ineffective, I’m hoping the speedy review of Hussein’s conviction and sentence bodes well for the future of Iraq and is not an indication that civil rights will get only lip-service in this new democracy. That being said, I [...]
I just was watching a livestream video (the internet is amazing) an interesting a forum with Justices Breyer and Scalia called “A Conversation on the Constitution.” (Here)
It was interesting to note that Breyer, in a general statement of his view about the role of a judge, cavalierly quoted the Biblical passage, Deuteronomy 16:20: ”justice, justice you [...]
As you may know, Tennessee has been buzzing with the death penalty issue for a couple of weeks as two convicted murderers were scheduled to die on the same date. As the result of some posts to the Nashville City Paper’s forum, I recieved an email one evening from an anti-DP post-er and the “discussion” [...]
Lame holding of U.S. S.Ct. on death penalty–trying to litigate from the bench what they prefer the laws regulating the Death Penalty should be. The AEDPA (Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act) effectively protected against wrongful administration of the DP.
And it is absolutely laughable that some believe it is “cruel and unusual punishment” (and thereby [...]
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