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Last night, a short time after midnight, I awoke in the grip of a nightmare, straining to cry out or…

2,000 people in Los Angeles paid their respects yesterday to Stanley Tookie Williams, executed last week in California. “Many of the people who lined up today for a last look at the man didn’t know him; never met him,” Ali…

by TChris TalkLeft wrote here about Cory Maye, a man who shot a police officer in the middle of the night, after the officer broke down Maye’s door, believing Maye was a drug dealer. The cop’s mistake (the dealer lived…

A disturbing application of capital punishment.

In a discussion of a murder conviction of a man who defended himself against the police and is now on Death Row, Glenn Reynolds touches on one of the worst fears of many a law-abiding gun owner: distinguishing between police…

Radley Balko at The Agitator, an outstanding blog, has a fascinating, but terrible, story about Cory Maye, a black man who sits on death row a…

Cory Maye is sitting on Mississippi’s Death Row for killing a cop in self-defense.

I know what you are thinking, how can killing a cop ever be justified?…

I am conflicted with the death penalty. There is a part of me that believes that death is a proper punishment in certain circumstances. Unfortunately, there is no fool proof method to ensure that the right person was convicted for the crime and we m…

If Radley’s facts are correct, this is an outrageous miscarriage of justice. I wonder if we’ll see the Hollywood pinheads marching for an innocent black man on death row for a change. Via Bitter. Unlike some others, I don’t think…

…then an innocent man is on death row.
Instapundit points to Balko’s posts on this and has some scathing commentary.
If Balko is accurate, then Second Amendment issues also are in play, and because of this it is also not clear that the u…

Via Bitter who got it from Radley Balko of The Agitator. Cory Maye sits on death row. His crime? He shot the son of the police chief. Why? Cause said son of a police chief was a member of a…

Radley Balko has a post about one of the most outrageous cases you’ll ever hear about. A man is on death row in Mississippi for shooting a cop. Ordinarily, most people would think that’s okay. But the facts are unreal….

A man hears his front door kicked down. He is home with his young daughter. Most of the men who have broken in are armed and looking to target anything in the house that moves. One barges into the bedroom…