Tag: Crime and Justice

Should the Government Kill Its Own Citizens? July 7, 2008Ivan Eland When the Supreme Court recently ruled that the death penalty for raping a child was unconstitutional, the justices relied […]

Julia Prodis Sulek and Ken McLaughlin on Minutes of horror as Turlock father beats, kills his son: Six-and-a-half minutes for two men to try to stop a father from beating […]

Today, a group of 27 legal scholars and technical experts and 13 privacy and civil liberty groups filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in the case […]

Again, a cop tasers a person for no reason: "A dashboard camera video posted on YouTube less than 24 hours ago showing a Utah Highway Patrol officer firing a Taser […]

Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy.  Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com My friend Pete is a retired arbitrager who lives in Manhattan. Since his wife, Madelyn, is much younger […]

Willoughby Mariano, writing for the Orlando Sentinel, in Arrest is first under homeless-feeding law: "Undercover officers filmed the food line, meticulously counting Montanez serving "30 unidentified persons food from a […]

I haven't blogged about this yet, but I should have mentioned it long ago. Radley Balko, a Cato Institute writer and fellow libertarian blogger, has been faithfully and tirelessly exposing […]

On June 2nd, I signed a comment letter sent to the Bureau of Prisons and coordinated by the ACLU.  This letter was in response to yet another Bush Administration attempt, […]

Just when it looked like Jack the Ripper may have been identified, there's a new twist from The Australian's Jade Bilowol: In a bid to crack the identity of one […]

WBAL on Couple Arrested for Asking for Directions: WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team reporter David Collins said Joshua Kelly and Llara Brook, of Chantilly, Va., got lost leaving an Orioles game […]