The buzz at the Sacramento Bee is that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will soon ask the state legislature to approve a massive release of prisoners who are thought to be of low risk to the general population: According to details of a budget proposal made available to The Bee, the administration will ask the Legislature to authorize…
Category: Justice
Deadly Force
The question of when or if deadly force can be used is an open one in the minds of many Americans. Not so in the case of Joe Horn. The Houston Chronicle first reported on Mr. Horn’s case and the pair of burglars he gunned down nearly a month ago, saying: On a 911 tape released…
Father Kills Daughter over Hijab
The 16-year-old Muslim girl Michael wrote about earlier has died as a result of injuries her father inflicted on her because she would no longer wear a hijab as he demanded. This heinous act can only be described as the most despicable betrayal possible – the deliberate murder of a beautiful child at the hands of her…
Runaway Juror
The case against the Holy Land Foundation was an open-and-shut one – the nominal charity was almost certainly guilty of funneling money to Hamas, an organization that most Americans recognize as a sponsor of terrorism in Israel and beyond. So how did the U.S. government lose the case? The Investigative Project on Terrorism’s new report…
Christ not Welcome in Prison
Here’s an example of the sort of ideological boondoggles that today’s polarized, us-against-them power struggles produce on a regular basis here in the old U.S. of A: The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that government support for the InnerChange Freedom Initiative at Newton Correctional Facility — a program operated by Chuck Colson’s Prison Fellowship Ministries…
Posted: No Sex Offenders
Determined to keep itself safe, an Amarillo subdivision is implementing deed restrictions that will bar sex offenders from owning or living in new homes built there: G.R. Chapman Limited Partnership said the restriction will apply to future development within The Woodlands. The 550 existing homes are not affected. “We want to try to have a…
Hate Crimes
By overreacting to Don Imus, the Jena 6, and reports of nooses being hung on campus doors, black leaders like Al Sharpton are doing their constituencies a disfavor. Clarence Page says that they should be should be at least as interested and outraged at black-on-black crimes as they are at these more politically explosive but…
Saudi Rape Victim’s Sentence
No, the sentence of 200 lashes handed down to a Saudi girl for being alone with a man before being attacked and brutally gang-raped by 7 other men has NOT been reversed. But it has been “clarified“, according to CNN: The Justice Ministry acknowledged in its statement Tuesday that the [young woman’s] attorney is no longer…
Torture, the Litmus Test
There have been several anti-torture articles today, most in opposition to the practice. I’m glad of that – no one should want to have to inflict pain and suffering on another human being. But how important is the debate and/or the practice? At the LA Times, Rosa Brooks calls torture “the new abortion” for the…
Torture
The principle is whether western security services should, in their duty to protect to people of the countries they serve, torture captured enemies. The lines of debate are if torture should ever be allowed and, if so, in what circumstances? If it is ever to be allowed, there’s the question of what techniques can be…