Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s response to the news that a man he granted clemency in 2000 is a suspect in yesterday’s brutal massacre of four police officers in Washington State is generating some telling comments at his HuckPAC site. Some are positive. Some of the reaction from this More…
Jeffrey Kaye at Truthout has a good piece today on the suicide — or murder? — of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al Hanashi in June. It’s a powerful reminder of why human rights advocates, as well as U.S. military leaders, think it’s important to close that More…
Even though the military justice system hasn’t actually executed anyone in over 50 years, military prosecutors have decided to seek the death penalty in the case of alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, The Wall Street Journal reports this morning. Hasan was charged with 13 counts More…
For all the criticism faced by Erik Prince, the founder of private security company Blackwater — since renamed Xe — no one’s ever called him a killer. But according to Jeremy Scahill, the reporter most doggedly investigating the company, new sworn statements filed in a civil case against Xe More…
When the Supreme Court ruled last week in a controversial 5-4 decision that prisoners have no constitutional right to obtain available DNA evidence that could prove their innocence, retiring Justice David Souter wrote an eloquent dissent.
This excerpt below (I’ve omitted the citations) explains how the majority’s “conservatism” in More…
In yet another 5-4 ruling Thursday, the Supreme Court denied a man imprisoned for a rape and attempted murder he says he didn’t commit the right to the DNA evidence that would prove his guilt or innocence.
Concluding that this is a matter for state legislatures, not the federal More…
Andrew Sullivan posts a must-read excerpt from a reader who considered — but ultimately didn’t have — a late-term abortion provided by Dr. George Tiller, who was murdered last week because he provided that critical medical service.
Here’s how the pregnant reader learned that her fetus had a likely More…
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