Justice Sotomayer's dissent in the Grants Pass case (tags)
The majority held the homeless can be punished for their conduct even when the state has wholly inadequate shelter beds. Ignoring the Martin v Boise and Robinson decisions, the majority held that this punishment is not cruel and unusual and is not a punishment of status. 138 Gospel Rescue beds for 620 homeless!!
Practica Nova Imperialis Saxonica rerum criminalium (tags)
Practica Nova Imperialis Saxonica rerum criminalium
US Executions Violate The 14th, 8th, and 1st Amendments To The Constitution (tags)
Only 16% of US states still perform the barbarism of prisoner murder. Less than 20% of the world's countries do. The US is among the top 5 execution countries.
Self-Serving Politicians Behind Legislation – Robert G Tronge (tags)
To protect our children, It’s an emergency, if the passage of this law saves just one child then it has served its purpose. We have all heard these type of comments from our legislators. Friedrich August von Hayek once wisely said.
Pavlov's Dogs, Skinner's Rats, fbi's victim/Targets (tags)
See the reports of fbi crimes that no one wants to believe.
Mass Support for Chelsea Manning (tags)
police state
Israel's Response to Everything: Collective Punishment (tags)
Israel
The United States of Injustice (tags)
police state
Know the consequence of insulting ISlam (tags)
People know the consequences. Why did France allow the tabloid to provoke Muslims?
Collective Punishment: Official Israeli Policy (tags)
Israel
Bomb Abroad Spank At Home (tags)
While 39 countries have banned corporal punishment, 19 US states allow teachers to paddle students.
Reforming Prison’s Harshest Tactic –The Angola 3 case may help change the... (tags)
The Angola 3 case may help change the arbitrary and sometimes abusive use of solitary confinement.
Israel's Gulag Prison Hell (tags)
Israels
BTL:Connecticut Poised to Become 17th State to End Capital Punishment (tags)
Interview with Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center , conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Buried Alive Cruel and Unusual Punishsment (tags)
torture
The USA military taught Brazilian state agents to practice torture in the past and even today torture is used because no one was punished because of what happened during the Brazilian dictatorship imposed in Brazil by USA.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment (tags)
police state
War on drugs is "universally unconstitutional" (tags)
The reversal of the onus of proof in drug-possession cases is incompatible with the rule of law and is therefore unconstitutional in ALL jurisdictions. If you're a juror in a trial for possession of a prohibited drug, and if you are told that the "law" requires the defendant to prove that the possession was unwitting, it is your civic duty to put the onus of proof back where it belongs (on the prosecution), raise it to the proper standard (beyond reasonable doubt), and hand down a verdict on that basis.
America's Barbaric Death Penalty (tags)
barbarism
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual teens singled out for punishment (tags)
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual (LGB) adolescents are about 40 percent more likely than other teens to receive punishment at the hands of school authorities, police and the courts, according to research published in the January, 2011 issue of Pediatrics and released online December 6, 2010 at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/papbyrecent.dtl.
Call For An Interntaional Support For Bernard Rappaz Imprisoned In Switzerland (tags)
From switzerland, hemp activist Bernard Rappaz was condemned to 5 year and 8 month of prison, after an unfair trial, in which the charges mix cheerfully the violation of the federal drugs laws, money laundering, violation of the road traffic laws, etc etc. After 50 days of hunger strike to acquire a federal review of his trial, he was placed on probation, then re-incarcerated. He began a new hunger strike. The joint manager had only a suspended sentence and a light fine imposition. Did the Helvetic authorities sentenced him to death??
California Governor Candidate Wants Death Penalty on Spending Chopping Block (tags)
Stewart Alexander says “The Democrat front-runner Jerry Brown and Republicans Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner support the death penalty and the Three Strikes law. The truth is, these three candidates for governor are aware that capital punishment is robbing the public of billions of dollars to subsidize a broken down criminal justice system.”
Watch out, God is an evil terrorist.
BUSH-ERA 'EXTRAJUDICIAL PUNISHMENT NETWORK' VICTIMIZES THE INNOCENT BUT 'TARGETED' (tags)
• Extrajudicial targeting/punishment violates the U.S. Constitution, and has enabled crimes against humanity. Government intelligence, security, law enforcement and revenue officials are said to be complicit.
FBI might mean: Finished, Busted and Internment For Corporate Crooks (tags)
Are convictions, fines and imprisonment enough punishment for corporate executives proven guilty of crimes that damaged the U.S. economy?
Does America Really Need Its Own Holocaust? (tags)
Where are we heading with all this? Will America be satisfied with nothing less than a holocaust perpetrated against anyone who has violated its sexual norms? It seems unthinkable that people who consider themselves progressives should be silent on this issue, and should even, at times, be in the forefront of those who are invested in continuing to ratchet up the sex abuse panic.
Settler-Extremists Fire Mortars into W. Bank Villages (tags)
Israel's own Extremists are desperate to provoke another round of attacks on the Palestinians. Did you see this on the news ... ?
Cross Your Fingers: Israel Claims It's Decided Against Gaza Invasion (tags)
Let's hope.
Israeli Escalation of Collective Punishment to Start Today (tags)
THIS IS A WAR CRIME.
Presidential Candidate Will Ban Death Penalty (tags)
As president of the United States Stewart Alexander will fight for a constitutional ban on the death penalty; he will also direct his attorney general to investigate the cover-up in the Mumia case by the state officials in Pennsylvania, potentially charging these officials with obstruction of justice for covering up the frame-up.
A more appropriate punishment for Scooter Libby! (tags)
Instead of 2 and a half years in a comfortable,country club prison...
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: CRUELTY AND COST (tags)
The recent execution of Angel Nieves Diaz in Jacksonville, Florida has outraged opponents of capital punishment nationwide due to the unusual length of time of the procedure and the apparent pain and suffering Angel Diaz appeared to experience. Stewart Alexander, with the Peace and Freedom Party, says, “The whole process of capital punishment is flawed and the PFP wants federal legislation to band capital punishment in all 50 states; too many mistakes have been made, it’s cruel and inhumane.”
Families of the Condemned: The Death Penalty's Invisible Victims (tags)
"What is capital punishment if not the most premeditated of murders to which no criminal act, no matter how calculated, can be compared." Albert Camus
The Cruel, Collective Punishment of Lebanon (tags)
Lebanon, which has never fought Israel and has 40 daily newspapers, 42 colleges and universities and hundreds of different banks, is being destroyed by our planes and cannon and nobody is taking into account the amount of hatred we are sowing. In international public opinion, Israel has been turned into a monster, and that still hasn't been calculated into the debit column of this war. Israel is badly stained, a moral stain that can't be easily and quickly removed. And only we don't want to see it.
Cybercrime and Punishment (tags)
Interview with El Mariachi about the consequences of cybercrime.
Alexander: Death Row, Many Challenges (tags)
The U.S. Supreme Court made two important decisions on the death penalty that will impact the fate of hundreds of men and women that are on death rows nationwide. Stewart Alexander, Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor, says, “I respect the decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court, however the entire process of capital punishment in America is flawed.
Death Penalty, $250 Million Tax Burden (tags)
California taxpayers will spend an average of $200 to over $275 million for each prisoner on death row; and most of that cost is related to the high cost of capital trials, housing the death row inmate, the high cost for defense counsel and the tens of millions required to appeal convictions.
Death Penalty Issue Still Alive (tags)
The California death penalty has a temporary moratorium resulting from medical professionals refusing to participate in the execution of Michael Morales. Now is the time to examine the failures of capital punishment and how the criminal justice system is completely out of control in California and America.
Help Save Stanley Tookie Williams from execution (tags)
ON DEC. 13 at 12:01 a.m., Stanley "Tookie" Williams, who helped found the Crips gang in Los Angeles at the age of 17, is scheduled to die in the execution chamber at San Quentin Prison. His only chance to escape death by lethal injection is a grant of clemency from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
2.000.000 prisoners - the USA is the world´s leading jailer! (tags)
- - - The U.S. is the world's leading jailer, imprisoning around 22 percent of the world's prison population in spite of representing only around 4.6 percent of the world's population - - -
BTL:Campaign Launched to Stop Connecticut's First Execution in 40 Years (tags)
Interview with Robert Nave, director of the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
Un-manageable Saturday July 24th 2004 at Flor y Canto 6 PM www.florycanto.org A discussion on the ways in which institutions have been using discipline and normalization as tools to mold the individual into docile and manageable bodies. The primary target of control is no longer just our body but also, if not primarily, our 'soul' ...
War In Iraq: The Punishment of Abu Hishma (tags)
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Open Letter from an Antiterrorist to Mr John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United Stat (tags)
Open Letter from an Antiterrorist to Mr John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States of America
Gallup Poll:Plurality of Americans Say DP Not Imposed Frequently Enough (tags)
Plurality of Americans Believe Death Penalty Not Imposed Often Enough Basic support for death penalty at 70%
BTL:Mass Commutation of Illinois Death Row Inmates Reframes National Debate on... (tags)
...Capital Punishment. Interview with Bruce Shapiro,co-author of the book "Legal Lynching," conducted by Scott Harris
Towards Abolition of the Death Penalty (tags)
Professor Michael Radelet from the University of Colorado-Boulder presented the keynote address at the IADP event. Professor Radelet is co author of In Spite of Innocence and has been a consultant to the Illinois Governor's Commission on Death Penalty Moratorium, among many other contributions to the movement to abolish the death penalty.
COLOMBIAN REBELS OFFER PEACE TALKS (tags)
Colombia's largest guerrilla organisation FARC says that it is willing to negotiate peace with new Colombian president Alvaro Uribe if he cracks down on the paramilitary death squads and withdraw government forces from two southern departments.