Execution will not be delayed: Garry Mitchell, of the Associated Press, reports that death row inmate Danny Joe Bradley will remain on schedule to be executed February 12, 2009. In 1983 Bradley was convicted for raping and murdering his stepdaughter. Bradley's attorney has attempted more than once to have his case re-examined. Since DNA testing of evidence was not available back in 1983, an "appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court in 2001 granted him a stay of execution pending DNA testing." Some of the evidence had been lost, but the bedding items that did remain were tested and confirmed Bradley's guilt beyond doubt, according to Alabama's capital litigation chief, Clay Crenshaw. Bradley's execution will be the "second of five scheduled in the first five months of this year."
New Jersey's Supreme Court: Reading Miranda warning once is sufficient
Eli Segall of the Associated Press writes about New Jersey's Supreme Court ruling "that a convicted child molester did not need his Miranda rights repeated to him during a police interrogation." The man, whose name was withheld in the article, was initially called into the police station to discuss "claims that his uncle had molested a 9-year-old female relative." Upon his arrival he was read his Miranda rights, and soon after "court records say the man confessed to a range of illegal sexual acts with the girl." The man's appeal, which can be found here, claimed he should be given a new trial because "detectives should have repeated his rights." In the opinion, Justice Barry Albin wrote "when someone is read their Miranda rights, the warnings 'strongly suggest, if not scream out, that a person is a suspect'."
The Normalization of Evil: Judea Pearl, the mother of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, has this op-ed in her son's newspaper. "But somehow, barbarism, often cloaked in the language of 'resistance,' has gained acceptance in the most elite circles of our society. The words 'war on terror' cannot be uttered today without fear of offense. Civilized society, so it seems, is so numbed by violence that it has lost its gift to be disgusted by evil."
A Different Shade of Green: "Because we care about your life - death penalty for murderers and kidnappers," reads a poster by the Partido Verde Ecologista de Mexico, reports Stephen Gibbs for the BBC.
Richard Allen Davis was once one of the most notorious criminals in America. His brazen kidnapping of Polly Klaas from her own bedroom and subsequent murder of the 12-year-old girl sparked the outrage that led to enactment of California's "Three Strikes" law. His long overdue appeal is finally up for oral argument in the California Supreme Court in March. Why no coverage? It's on the same calendar as the gay marriage case.
Prison Health Care: Debra Saunders has this column in the SF Chron on the excesses of California's prison receiver. "They [the prisoners] aren't animals, but they aren't entitled to facilities that far exceed those available to the average law-abiding taxpayer. As [AG] Brown noted, California is spending 'almost three times what the federal government is spending, more than two times what the average Californian gets. When is enough enough?'"
New Jersey's Supreme Court: Reading Miranda warning once is sufficient
Eli Segall of the Associated Press writes about New Jersey's Supreme Court ruling "that a convicted child molester did not need his Miranda rights repeated to him during a police interrogation." The man, whose name was withheld in the article, was initially called into the police station to discuss "claims that his uncle had molested a 9-year-old female relative." Upon his arrival he was read his Miranda rights, and soon after "court records say the man confessed to a range of illegal sexual acts with the girl." The man's appeal, which can be found here, claimed he should be given a new trial because "detectives should have repeated his rights." In the opinion, Justice Barry Albin wrote "when someone is read their Miranda rights, the warnings 'strongly suggest, if not scream out, that a person is a suspect'."
The Normalization of Evil: Judea Pearl, the mother of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, has this op-ed in her son's newspaper. "But somehow, barbarism, often cloaked in the language of 'resistance,' has gained acceptance in the most elite circles of our society. The words 'war on terror' cannot be uttered today without fear of offense. Civilized society, so it seems, is so numbed by violence that it has lost its gift to be disgusted by evil."
A Different Shade of Green: "Because we care about your life - death penalty for murderers and kidnappers," reads a poster by the Partido Verde Ecologista de Mexico, reports Stephen Gibbs for the BBC.
Richard Allen Davis was once one of the most notorious criminals in America. His brazen kidnapping of Polly Klaas from her own bedroom and subsequent murder of the 12-year-old girl sparked the outrage that led to enactment of California's "Three Strikes" law. His long overdue appeal is finally up for oral argument in the California Supreme Court in March. Why no coverage? It's on the same calendar as the gay marriage case.
Prison Health Care: Debra Saunders has this column in the SF Chron on the excesses of California's prison receiver. "They [the prisoners] aren't animals, but they aren't entitled to facilities that far exceed those available to the average law-abiding taxpayer. As [AG] Brown noted, California is spending 'almost three times what the federal government is spending, more than two times what the average Californian gets. When is enough enough?'"
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