Showing posts with label capital punishment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label capital punishment. Show all posts
Monday, June 5, 2017

We're for Religious Liberty: Rally to Be Held June 9 in Little Rock in Support of Judge Wendell Griffen

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I think most readers of this blog are not in Arkansas or nearby states. But on the off chance that there are readers of Bilgrimage in ...
Friday, May 12, 2017

Move to Impeach Judge Wendell Griffen: "Latest Effort to Punish a Judge, a Black Judge . . . with Whom the White Power Structure in Arkansas Disagrees"

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I thought I'd update you today on what's happening with my friend Judge (and Reverend) Wendell Griffen right now. As his re...
Friday, April 28, 2017

White Christian Right "Over the Moon" About Trump Presidency: News Worth Noting Today

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#Christian pic.twitter.com/3ZA6pRFGJS — Ani Sangye (@SangyeH) April 26, 2017 Some "in the news" items I've noticed in ...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Tipping Over into Something "So Dark, So Real, So Evil That There Was Really No Precedent for It in Terms of Its All-Encompassing Possibilities for Death"

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From the news and news commentary in the past day or so: read these snippets as a unified narrative, and the question arises, If I had ...
Saturday, April 22, 2017

In Arkansas, the Beginning of "Rapid-Fire Flurry of Executions Unprecedented in Modern U.S. History": Why All Americans Should Care

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The attorney representing Ledell Lee, the first man put to death in the current killing spree of Arkansas GOP Governor Asa Hutchinso...

A Twitter Conversation: "Church That Does Not Defend Humanity of LGBT People Is Not Credible When It Speaks About the Value of Life"

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A church that does not defend humanity of LGBT people is not credible when it speaks about the value of life. Period. https://t.co/v0csNLh...
Monday, April 17, 2017

As Arkansas Rushes to Execute 8 People in 11 Days, Remember Who Stands Behind Trump: White "Pro-Life" Evangelicals

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Trump approval ratings among... White evangelical Prot 78% White mainline Prot 51% Catholic 42% Unaffiliated 23% https://t.co/pqysd7lAfo ...
Monday, February 8, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Devout Catholic for Donald Trump!" "I Don't Care What the Tradition Says or Does Not Say"

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Meet Patsy, a self-described devout Catholic for Donald Trump ! Patsy is also a self-described "frightened person" who sup...
Saturday, January 3, 2015

Remembering Mario Cuomo: Issue That Above All Others Defines His Legacy Was Opposition to Death Penalty

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John Nichols's eulogy for Mario Cuomo at The Nation  is the best I've yet read. I like how Nichols gets that Cuomo's pol...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

A Nation Awash in Violence Admits to Torture: "We Have Lost Forever the Right to Moral Leadership"

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Abu Ghraib • We are approaching the second anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre, an event to which the U.S. has responded, at an ...
Friday, September 5, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "I Wonder What Justice Scalia Has to Say Now"

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Because isn't he not only a Catholic, but one who frequently claims that his Catholic values infuse everything he does as a Supre...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

Death Penalty in News: New Evidence Exonerates Men for Whom Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Promoted Death Penalty

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As the New York Times   notes today , a judicial development in North Carolina this week provides a "textbook example" of muc...
Friday, May 2, 2014

A Reader Writes: "I Wonder WHY the Murder Rate Is Higher in States That Allow Execution?"

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Yesterday, in response to my posting about the botched (and barbaric) execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma several days ago, a_le...
Thursday, May 1, 2014

Brief Takes from Week's News: Oklahoma and "The Very Definition of Cruel and Unusual Punishment"

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Brief takes from commentary in the past several days on the horrifying botched execution in Oklahoma:
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

My Book Is Published--Fiat Flux: The Writings of Wilson R. Bachelor, Nineteenth-Century Country Doctor and Philosopher

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At the risk of appearing immodest, I do want to announce that my book Fiat Flux: The Writings of Wilson R. Bachelor, Nineteenth-Cen...
Sunday, October 2, 2011

Maureen Dowd on Scalia (and U.S. Catholic Bishops) and Cooperation in Evil

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Justice Scalia and Cardinal Wuerl of D.C., Red Mass, 2008 Maureen Dowd writes about Supreme Court justice Scalia's defense o...
Friday, September 30, 2011

In Catholic News: Scalia Talks Moral Truths, Benedict Calls German Church to Poverty

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In Catholic news: Supreme Court justice (and right-wing Catholic) Antonin Scalia has made the news several times the past week, by addr...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

U.S. Catholic Theologians Speak Out vs. Death Penalty

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Important news to note this week: a group of Catholic theologians (the initial number was around 150, but the list of signatories is sa...