....when do we invade America?
Specifically, when do we invade the corporations that keep killing us?
19 deaths linked to GM ignition flaw
19 now. And still growing.
At least THIS is getting some news coverage.
Showing posts with label US. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US. Show all posts
Monday, September 15, 2014
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Important facts about the death penalty
A federal judge in California just ruled the death penalty unconstitutional. Why?
According to the Death Penalty Information Center:
U.S. District Court Judge Cormac Carney held that California's death penalty is so dysfunctional as to amount to cruel and unusual punishment. Vacating the death sentence of Ernest Jones, who has been on death row for almost 20 years, Judge Carney said the punishment cannot serve the purposes of deterrence or retribution when it is administered to a tiny select few, decades after their sentencing: "Inordinate and unpredictable delay has resulted in a death penalty system in which very few of the hundreds of individuals sentenced to death have been, or even will be, executed by the State. It has resulted in a system in which arbitrary factors, rather than legitimate ones like the nature of the crime or the date of the death sentence, determine whether an individual will actually be executed. And it has resulted in a system that serves no penological purpose. Such a system is unconstitutional." Read the Court's Opinion.
California has sentenced more than 900 people to death row since the 70s but has executed less than 20. I'd call that freakish. Just like I've taught and written about the death penalty in the entire US. Freakish.
Check out these facts of the death penalty just offered by CNN here. There you will find cool graphics will facts about executions per year in the US, executions by country in the world, executions by state, methods of death in the US, race, etc.
Good stuff!
According to the Death Penalty Information Center:
U.S. District Court Judge Cormac Carney held that California's death penalty is so dysfunctional as to amount to cruel and unusual punishment. Vacating the death sentence of Ernest Jones, who has been on death row for almost 20 years, Judge Carney said the punishment cannot serve the purposes of deterrence or retribution when it is administered to a tiny select few, decades after their sentencing: "Inordinate and unpredictable delay has resulted in a death penalty system in which very few of the hundreds of individuals sentenced to death have been, or even will be, executed by the State. It has resulted in a system in which arbitrary factors, rather than legitimate ones like the nature of the crime or the date of the death sentence, determine whether an individual will actually be executed. And it has resulted in a system that serves no penological purpose. Such a system is unconstitutional." Read the Court's Opinion.
California has sentenced more than 900 people to death row since the 70s but has executed less than 20. I'd call that freakish. Just like I've taught and written about the death penalty in the entire US. Freakish.
Check out these facts of the death penalty just offered by CNN here. There you will find cool graphics will facts about executions per year in the US, executions by country in the world, executions by state, methods of death in the US, race, etc.
Good stuff!
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
War on drugs still in the news ...
both in the US and around the world!
Start with this, from the Dallas Morning News:
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Time to cease the 'War on Drugs'
This is from the article: As journalist Matt Taibbi observes in his new book “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap,” Holder’s Justice Department has declined, essentially as a matter of policy, to prosecute the bankers who committed fraud, laundered money for drug cartels and terrorists, stole billions from their own banks, left taxpayers holding the bag, and also — not incidentally — nearly wrecked the U.S. economy. But let some nobody get caught with a joint in his pocket during a stop-and-frisk and the full weight of American justice falls on him.
And then there is this:
Australia warned its ice problem is reaching pandemic proportions
In-Depth-Herald Sun-
Start with this, from the Dallas Morning News:
In the war on drugs, a dismal record and a legacy of unfairness
Kansas City Star-
But the “war on drugs” didn't hurt drugs at all: Usage rose by 2,800 percent — that's not a typo — in the 40 years after it began in 1971.
This is from the article: As journalist Matt Taibbi observes in his new book “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap,” Holder’s Justice Department has declined, essentially as a matter of policy, to prosecute the bankers who committed fraud, laundered money for drug cartels and terrorists, stole billions from their own banks, left taxpayers holding the bag, and also — not incidentally — nearly wrecked the U.S. economy. But let some nobody get caught with a joint in his pocket during a stop-and-frisk and the full weight of American justice falls on him.
And then there is this:
David Cameron told it's time to surrender war on drugs, by Tory ...
Daily Mail-
David Cameron has been urged to abandon the 'futile' war on drugs by a group of Conservative party modernisers who think reform would ...
And this!
Australia losing its war on drugs
ABC Online-
MARK COLVIN: The Australian Crime Commission's annual drugs report warns that the use of meth - or ice - is emerging as a pandemic.
In-Depth-Herald Sun-
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