Rhode Island v. America On Capital Punishment

August 11, 2011

Kudos to Rhode Island for resisting capital punishment and refusing extradition – to the United States.

The Executioner’s Tweet

June 23, 2010

Capital punishment is carried out in this country behind closed prison doors, not on network television — though, if we are trying to deter heinous crime, one would think we ought to make the death penalty as visible as we can. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff seems to have found the next best thing to live television. Moments after he ordered the execution by firing squad of Ronnie Lee Gardner …

Granting Asylum From An Ally

March 12, 2010

Like many before them, Uwe and Hannelore Romeike uprooted their family and moved to the United States, seeking asylum and the freedom to practice their beliefs. But the Romeikes’ situation is unique. They did not come from a country ruled by a repressive, dictatorial regime, but from a modern Western democracy. The German couple appealed to the United States after they faced what a Memphis, Tenn. judge deemed to be …

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