Death Penalty
A dying man’s last wish is carried out after all
Friday, May 11th, 2007
CNN: Executed man’s last request honored — pizza for homeless - by Ashley Fantz
(CNN) — Hundreds of homeless people in Nashville, Tennessee, ate well Wednesday evening — all in the name of a man who the state put to death just hours earlier.
Philip Workman, 53, requested that his final meal be a vegetarian pizza […]
The folly of vengance
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
CNN: Hussein executed with ‘fear in his face’
AP/Hindu Times: Execution tragic, says Vatican
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican on Saturday termed the execution of the former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, “tragic.” It risked fueling revenge and new violence in Iraq.
“An execution is always tragic news, reason for sadness, even in the case of a […]
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Friday, December 15th, 2006
CNN.com: Florida executions halted after botched injection
OCALA, Florida (AP) — The execution of a convicted killer took 34 minutes — twice as long as normal — because officials botched the insertion of the needles that delivered the lethal chemicals, a medical examiner said Friday.
Gov. Jeb Bush responded to the findings by halting the signing […]
A criticism of the right and left on pro-death policies
Monday, November 24th, 2003Cornerstone Magazine: Right or Left, Blood and Violence Is in Full View — by Jon Trott - a compelling attack of the Right (for their complicit support of “no-holds-barrred” attacks on terrorism even if it means using torture to reach the desired ends) and the Left (for their failure to condemn the horrible inhuman practice […]
Quote of the Day
Wednesday, November 19th, 2003It’s a helluva thing to kill a man…you take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.”
- Clinton Eastwood in the movie Unforgiven
That quote expresses why I find the idea of killing (in any circumstance, even war and the death penalty) to be such an awful thing. The finality of it seems […]
The Life of David Gale
Saturday, November 8th, 2003Last night I saw on tape the movie The Life of David Gale, a recent movie staring Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet. The first third of the movie or so to me moved pretty slowly but the later two thirds or so was rather intense.
Warning - there are a few spoilers in what follows.
The reviews […]