Death Penalty
Not since the Casey Anthony trial in Florida a couple of years ago has a murder trial seized the country’s attention like the Jodi Arias case. Unless you’ve been in outer space or stuck on a desert island somewhere, you probably already know that Arias killed her sometimes lover Travis Alexander in June, 2008 by [...]
Mexico was outraged when the state of Texas executed Humberto Leal Garcia last week for the rape and murder of a 16-year old girl. Garcia, who was was born in Mexico, was brought to this country illegally at the age of two, and had lived here ever since. Mexico and the Obama administration argued that, [...]
Opponents to capital punishment have come up with a new way to try and keep states from carrying out legally ordered executions. They have filed lawsuits against several states, including California, Arizona, and Oklahoma, claiming that the drug used in lethal injections was illegally obtained. Bowing to pressure from the do gooders, Lake Forest, Illinois-based [...]
The do gooders have been in an uproar this week about the execution Thursday of Teresa Lewis, who was sentenced to die by lethal injection for orchestrating the 2002 murders of her husband and stepson to get a $250,000 insurance payout. Death penalty opponents claimed that the State of Virginia ignored Lewis’ supposed diminished mental [...]
There’s good news and bad news for Ohio death row inmate Darryl Durr, who is scheduled to be executed this week for the rape and murder of sixteen year old Angel Vincent, whom Durr abducted from her home and killed in 1988. Durr has been waging a prolonged legal battle, at taxpayer expense, to avoid [...]
Thursday a Gilbert, Arizona police officer was murdered during a routine traffic stop, a crime that precipitated a violent 50 mile chase up a winding two lane mountain road that ended in a gunfight that can best be described as something out of a Hollywood movie. Police Lieutenant Eric Shuhandler was a father of two, [...]
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