Tag: death penalty
Apr. 12, 2019
Death does not take holidays on the Supreme Court
The death penalty is dying a slow, lingering death in America, but for every day it continues we write a new chapter of moral infamy…
May. 5, 2017
Is Midazolam too cruel?
Recently, Arkansas set out to execute eight death row inmates in an 11 day span. The reason for the rushed and condensed executions? The state’s…
May. 5, 2017
The Arkansas death circus
Arkansas: Isn’t that the place the Clintons came from? Yes, indeed. And some of us will remember that the Man From Hope, as Bill Clinton…
Jun. 3, 2016
Abolishing capital punishment
A century and a half ago, America came out of slavery. It was perhaps not literally true, as Abraham Lincoln said, that every drop drawn…
May. 16, 2014
The death penalty is uncivilized
The Japanese are nothing if not stubborn. It took a visit from Hiroo Onoda’s former commanding officer, by then a retired bookseller, to persuade the…
Aug. 3, 2012
Paterno statue removed
In the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse trial and The Pennsylvania State University’s cover-up, the role of deceased head football coach Joe Paterno in…