The horrific murder of a Texas co-ed at the hands of an obsessed ex-boyfriend and a report of an even more sickening fate suffered by an innocent 6 year-old boy have been lodged in my psyche as if the stories were shards of glass blasted into my mind’s eye. I’ve read a lot lately about…
Category: Crime
Rape, a New Definition
A recent Time article begins thusly: If a woman consents to having sex with a man but then during intercourse says no, and the man continues, is it rape? The answer depends on where you live. The highest courts of seven states, including Connecticut and Kansas, have ruled that a woman may withdraw her consent…
Schools’ Accountability
There’s been a vigorous debate about accountability in our schools and in it there’s almost always a tacit assumption that the physical safety of the children need not be discussed, that it’s been taken care of. However, one need not think too hard about that assumption to see that it is false, as in this…
Texas Executes Child Killer
The world is just that much better off tonight, I say, holding my thumb and index finger about a half-centimeter apart, now that Carlos Granados is no longer in it. In their usual fashion, the Houston Chronicle implies that this act is somehow wrong by using phraseology such as: “the nation’s busiest capital punishment state”…
Executions Down Nationally…
…but they’re up in Texas. The Houston Chronicle reports: The convicted killer of a 3-year-old boy is set to die this week, the first of five lethal injections scheduled this month as Texas bucks a national trend and bolsters its standing as the most active in carrying out capital punishment. Twenty-four condemned Texas killers were…
Today’s Criminal Injustices
First, in moment of a staggering genius, the technical wizards at the Texas DPS have decided to track deported sex offenders after all. Andy Kahan, director of the crime victim’s office for Houston Mayor Bill White, had to ask the DPS to make the change after one such scumbag killed a Houston cop last month….
Houston’s “Don’t Ask” Immigration Policy Changed
Finally. But a cop had to get killed first.
Spring, TX? No Thanks…
Some of you have undoubtedly heard about the skinheads who beat up and tortured a Mexican boy nearly to death in Spring. This happened in a reasonably nice neighborhood. Disgusting little fuckers, aren’t they? There are so many mental defectives involved in this hideous event that it’s hard to know where to begin unraveling it….
Convicted Again!
Here’s proof that the justice system does work, sometimes.
Another One Ought to Bite the Dust
An appeals court in New Orleans halted execution of convicted murderer. Any excuse will do, apparently, to stop justice from being meted out. If you ask me, a guy who pulls a gun on the presiding judge in his murder trial has proven the state’s case against himself.