Showing posts with label death penalty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death penalty. Show all posts
Sunday, October 8, 2017

Update on Judge Wendell Gfiffen of Little Rock: Judge Griffen Files Suit vs. Arkansas Supreme Court for Violating His Religious Liberty

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In May, I told you of a move to impeach Arkansas judge (and my friend) Wendell Griffen after he took part in a public demonstration ...
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 ...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Arkansas Killing Spree Now Underway, as "Pro-Life" White Christians Applaud

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My state of Arkansas did move ahead to execute a man named Ledell Lee last night. Our state Supreme Court cleared the way for this ex...
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...
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...
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:
Friday, January 20, 2012

Republican Party and the South: Then-and-Now, An Addendum

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In what I posted earlier today, I also intended to note Dr. Wilson Bachelor's view of the death penalty.  That detail somehow got...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

The News That's Fit to Tell: End-of-Week List

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From a week of news-reading in which I haven't felt sufficient energy to comment on these stories as carefully as I might have wi...
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...