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Obama's huge debt to Bill Clinton
The Swamp(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) by Frank James Here's an interesting thought: Sen. Barack Obama's legions of admirers and supporters should thank the Clintons because without them, Obama's road to the White House would be a lot steeper if not......Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Pension and Welfare, Punishment, Political Candidates, Jimmy Carter
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Accused 9/11 plotter seeks martyrdom
The SwampKhalid Sheik Mohammed, from the FBI via Bloomberg News by James Oliphant Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and the highest of high-level detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, declared Thursday that he......Tags: Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Islam, FBI, Pennsylvania
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In Florida, timely injustice
At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing. Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges. But that doesn't change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates had been...Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Executive Branch, Regional Authority
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Reckoning With Emotions' Powerful Political Pull
The Hartford CourantDuring Wednesday's debate on new gun laws, Sen. John Kissel rose and began a lengthy set of remarks with two anecdotes. First, the Enfield Republican spoke movingly of hugging his youngest son, Tristan, on the day of the Newtown massacre, one day before...Tags: John A Kissel, Crime, Law and Justice, Interior Policy, George H.W. Bush, Andrew M. Maynard
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The illusory value of the death penalty
After deciding to pursue the execution of the man charged with fatally shooting 12 people in a Colorado movie theater last summer, the prosecutor declared that "for James Egan Holmes, justice is death." By that definition, he might have added, justice...
Tags: Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Executive Branch, Jared Lee Loughner
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Gary Stein: No more wavering: dump executions
On certain topics, I've always held firm. For example: Abortion — I've always been for a woman's right to choose. Never a doubt. Guns — I've always, always hated them. In my perfect world, it would be so tough to get one, no one would...Tags: Murder, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Justice System, Prisons
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In death penalty repeal, reason over revenge at long last
Many of us believe that capital punishment, first used in the Province of Maryland in 1638, should have been relegated to the trash heap long ago. Politicians in Annapolis had overwhelming evidence of its costly and debilitating flaws for many years,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Annapolis, Punishment, Maryland General Assembly, U.S. Congress
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The importance of dignity, on land and at sea
My late father used to say that no quality of human life was more important than dignity. That wisdom came to mind the other night when I sat with my wife watching CNN as the exhausted passengers finally began debarking from the cruise ship Carnival...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Petroleum Industry, Adolf Eichmann, Punishment
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Progressive votes in November pave way for death penalty repeal
That was no small development heard the other day from the longtime president of the Maryland Senate, Thomas V. Mike Miller. The white-haired gatekeeper of the General Assembly said he would allow a vote to repeal the death penalty on the Senate floor,...Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Annapolis, Punishment, Executive Branch
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On parking tickets, speeding tickets and O'Malley's politics
Nobody asked me but ... if one is urged to support small retailers during the holiday shopping season, one might expect the municipalities in which they are located to take a holiday on parking tickets. Consider what happened to Debbie Bakalich when she...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Gays and Lesbians, Punishment, Andrew Cuomo, Executive Branch
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A judge's 'sympathy' violated a crook's rights, his appeal says
Nobody ever said that sticking up for the rights of the accused was going to be easy. One Pennsylvania man — on the brink of his date with a syringe loaded with Dr. Jack Kevorkian's favorite problem solver — got a reprieve, it seems,...
Tags: Northampton County (Pennsylvania), Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Criminal Laws, U.S. Supreme Court
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Last-minute advice on state ballot measures
SACRAMENTO — If you're still scratching your head over the long list of state ballot propositions, here's a voter's guide. It's not to be confused with those slick home mailers, often produced by political profiteers masquerading under some phony...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Executive Branch, Criminals
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