...while the prison waits for the Supreme Court to consider a stay request. It's hard to imagine this being anything but very temporary, but never give up hope I guess. More info here. And, yes, "cruel. and. unusual." pretty much sums up this whole process....
Author: Scott Lemieux
This won't be surprising to longtime readers, but I agree with Dargis in almost every detail here. Plenty of great art has been made by extremely odious human beings and.
Band whose last good album was released during the Clinton administration breaks up. I can't resist the snark, in part because of the inevitable attempts of people to delude themselves.
If there's a choice to be made between reducing grotesquely high unemployment and doing nothing in order to improve our political fortunes, the Federal Reserve must do the latter.
Mark Penn. Still the single biggest reason that I would still support Obama if the 2008 primaries were run again. And the fact that he was portrayed as some sort.
The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied clemency to Troy Davis, making his execution inevitable. Davis is not unquestionably innocent, and not quite a case like Cameron.
I guess my earlier arguments about the lack of an AL East pennant race because of the wild card are now inoperative. I would strongly advise the Red Sox not to start Tom Glavine the last weekend of the season if the pennant is still...
Again, the central premise of the contemporary Republican Party is that people making $400K+ a year are living a hardscrabble existence, while a teacher or police officer making $50 K.
As a counterpart to her ongoing analysis of the proliferation of misogynist sex-is-icky comedy, Dana Stevens makes an important point about the contemporary romantic comedy as part of a review.
Alleged sensibly moderate Republican Michael Gerson displays some actual sensible moderation: Try to imagine a parent-daughter conversation about sexual restraint and maturity that includes the words: “Honey, I’m going to deny you a vaccine that prevents a horrible, bleeding cancer, just as a little reminder...
This is a different kind of injustice than Willingham, in that there seems to be good evidence that Buck killed somebody, but as for the death sentence: In May 1997,.
Plumer has a good analysis. It could be innocent. a necessary technical delay, but obviously given the ozone rule postponement there's obviously reason to be suspicious.