The death penalty is murder,” explains the rabbi and former assistant Ohio public defender Benjamin Zober. “We are commanded, ‘justice, justice, shall you pursue.’ (Deut. 16:20) We cannot do this by taking lives, acting in anger, or vengeance, or by creating more bloodshed, trauma, ...
Having regard, however, to the conditions in India, to the variety of the social upbringing of its inhabitants, to the disparity in the level of morality and education in the country, to the vastness of its area, to the diversity of its population, and to the paramount need for ...
Officials have not yet released motives for the crime. According to court records, Doerman has had 15 brushes with the law since 2009. Most of the charges were for minor infractions such as speeding or traffic violations. In 2010, he hadone domestic violence misdemeanor chargeinvolving his fat...
the convention discriminated against its characteristics and the offenses to which its weaker member were prone….Burglary, theft, arson, and obtaining money under false pretenses were declared to be disqualifications [from voting], while robbery and murders, and other crimes in which violence was ...
In the hours following the attack, there wasanother mass shootingacross the country in Dayton, Ohio. Police said nine people were killed by a gunman who was shot to death by responding officers. Officials have referenced a document allegedly left behind by ...
His work has had an incalculable effect, wholly for the good. At a time when the criminal justice systems in most European countries were hideously barbaric, he cut through all the traditional arguments and traditional complacency and attacked the death penalty and other abuses, such as torture....