In a vitriolic column employing the very style for which she attacks Justice Anonin Scalia, Linda Greenhouse repeats the old banal "bad-boy" narrative of a long hostile media. This unanswered charge is misleading in the extreme. What Greenhouse Wants Readers To Believe Greenhouse asserts Scalia utterly lacks "pragmatism," is "angry," "enraged," "furious," "inflammatory," "bomb-throwing," "intemperate," "self-indulgen[t]," "bullying," and prone to "insults," "put-downs," "lashing out," publicly "thrashing...a junior colleague" and, indeed, "undermin[ing] the court's ... legitimacy." << MORE >>

Regarding the jurisdiction, by time, of the Texas Forensic Science Commission in the Willingham case: It seems clear that the TFSC has no jurisdiction in this case. But, that is why we have AG opinions. The question in not why the TFSC has submitted questions to the Texas AG for his opinion, now, but why and how the TFSC could have spent all of the time, money and other resources on the Willingham case, without being responsible enough to get an opinion from the AG, prior to all of those expenditures. << MORE >>

Pat and Tom Nicarico, whose 10-year-old daughter Jeanine was abducted from their Naperville home and killed in 1983, are among those urging the Illinois Senate and Gov. Pat Quinn not to follow suit with the House's vote to abolish the death penalty. Jeanine's killer, Brian Dugan, was sentenced to death in 2009. The Nicaricos issued the following statement on the (Illinois) House vote (to repeal the death penalty): << MORE >>

The community used to have a forum. It was known as the Fourth Estate. Everyone in the death penalty debate, inclusive of the Dallas Morning News, knows how the anti death penalty folks have so distorted the meaning of exonerated, as to mask its real meaning. The 138 exonerated from death row, a Death Penalty Information Center deception, has been widely and freely dissenminated by media throughout the world, for over a decade, not because it is true, but only in service to the anti death penalty movement, for which the DMN, as others, has sacrificed their Fourth Estate soul. << MORE >>

Ms. Keshen, staff attorney, New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union, needs to review the evidence, again. A rebuttal to Ms. Keshan's four points. 1) countries with no death penalty law: 95 countries with the death penalty: 102 (1) << MORE >>

Last April’s retirement announcement by Justice John Paul Stevens occasioned an outpouring of adulation: Champion of the Powerless. The Greatest Justice, etc. His absence from the new Supreme Court term renewed the love fest, evoking honor and award for his “open mind.” Liberal judicial activists depict him as an authoritative hero and saint (most recently: 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley and The New York Times’ Adam Liptak). << MORE >>

The community used to have a forum. It was known as the Fourth Estate. Everyone in the death penalty debate, inclusive of the Dallas Morning News, knows how the anti death penalty folks have so distorted the meaning of exonerated, as to mask its real meaning. << MORE >>

Defense attorney Thomas Ullmann defended Steven Hayes in the capital murder trial of the three rape/torture/murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit, who was raped and strangled to death, along with her two daughters, 17-year-old Haley and 11-year-old Michaela. Michaela was sexually assaulted. << MORE >>

Justice Stevens strong bias against the death penalty and his lack of voiced concern for murder victims is well known (1). Very few of the 112 Supreme Court Justices concluded that the death penalty is unconstitutional, as Justice Stevens has. << MORE >>

We all owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. William Petit who, in his extreme hour of grief, taught us a valuable lesson about the nature of evil, forgiveness, and the problem of suffering. No, not what you would expect. In speaking of the man convicted of killing his wife and two daughters, Petit did not deliver an amoral, slobbering speech about forgiving his wife and daughters' murderer and how all suffering teaches us some valuable lesson, enriching us in the process. << MORE >>