Defense often inadequate in 4 death-penalty states, review finds

"The jurors heard all about the convenience-store holdup, the gunshots and the dead clerk. Their unanimous verdict came swiftly: Warren King was guilty of a senseless murder that shocked rural Appling County, Ga. A death sentence almost certainly would be next, unless King's...

Nazanin Fateh Update

"As reported here earlier last year the fate of Nazanin Fateh, who was to be hung in Iran for defending herself from rape, became a one woman cause for Canada's Miss World, who also shared Nazanin's first name. Nazanin Fateh got a new trial and while she is not going...

Purple Wave USA

" It was a purple wave of petulant protest against politial pulchritude of the Bush Regime. Last night the Democrats with support from real conservatives, both fiscal and social, and from real liberals, sweeped the Republicans out of power in both the House and Senate."

Pro-Life Pro-Death

"So riddle me this what is both pro-life and pro-death?"

Saddam

" I didn't know that the penalty for meglomania, stupidity and self delusion was death."

Double Jeopardy

"This is a case of double jeopardy where in the victim is subjected to both the sexist regime of Sharia law in Iran and the ruling classes discrimination against ethnic minorities in Iran.Today on Parliament Hill MP's from all parties gathered to denounce the pending death...