Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
A new study that is sure to make Liberal and anti-death penalty zealots’ heads explode (which is, obviously, a good thing) showing that the death penalty in Texas might actually work as a deterrent:
HUNTSVILLE — As many as 60 people may be alive today in Texas because two dozen convicted killers were executed last year in the nation’s most active capital punishment state, according to a study of death penalty deterrence by researchers from Sam Houston State University and Duke University.
A review of executions and homicides in Texas by criminologist Raymond Teske at Sam Houston in Huntsville and Duke sociologists Kenneth Land and Hui Zheng concludes a monthly decline of between 0.5 to 2.5 homicides in Texas follows each execution.
“Evidence exists of modest, short-term reductions in the numbers of homicides in Texas in the month of or after executions,” the study published in a recent issue of Criminology, a journal of the American Society of Criminology, said.
Whether the death penalty serves as a deterrent to future murderers or not is not my chief concern about the death penalty.
For me, the greatest argument in favor of carrying out death sentences is about justice. It’s acknowledging that some crimes are so horrific and the people who commit them are so evil, that the only suitable punishment is death.
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It’s not just about punishment. It is also about protecting society from these monsters and their future crimes.
- pdwalker | 01/07/2010 @ 22:15Exactly.
If anything, the problem with it as it’s practiced today is that it’s too humane. Some psychopath butchers an entire family with an axe, or brutally rapes and murders a young couple, or commits some unspeakable crime against a child…and the criminal justice system responds by sticking a needle in his arm and allowing him to peacefully drift off to sleep.
And to think, during and after the French Revolution, some were concerned about the use of the guillotine. Not because they objected to people getting a head sliced off, but because the instrument was “so quick, so clean, so painless” that it might not be a suitable deterrent to others who kill.
In my opinion, the appropriate remedy for most such heinous acts involves a horse, a long rope, and a tall, strong oak tree. That, or a simply an angry crowd armed with good-sized rocks.
Capital punishment has been part of the human experience for thousands of years and across hundreds of cultures. Any who haven’t practiced it have been in the minority, and to tell you the truth, I can’t think of even one off the top of my head.
- cylarz | 01/08/2010 @ 01:07and the criminal justice system responds by sticking a needle in his arm and allowing him to peacefully drift off to sleep.
…,after first swabbing off his arm with alcohol to avoid infection, and reading him the Government Mandated Warning Label regarding possible side effects.
- rob | 01/08/2010 @ 11:16Kill the convicted bastards. I like the death penalty for these warped misanthropes.
I’m so glad you like my homeboy, Morgan.
- Daphne | 01/08/2010 @ 19:45