Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 – 05:27:30 PM
Its April 2nd, and the news that Sen. Ken Cuccinelli (R) announced for Attorney General in 2009 is now confirmed to not actually be an April Fool’s hoax (though many wish it was). Cuccinelli, the presumptive nominee as we here at 750 Volts said back in the winter, is expected to tout his rock-solid–and I [...]
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 – 09:04:03 PM
[f]aulty evidence masquerading as science sent two men to death row for arson in Texas and led to the execution of one of them.” Trips to the electric chair have never quite been refundable.
Think of this.
Cameron Willingham’s blood stains the hand of every single citizen of the United States. The government has murdered an innocent [...]
Monday, March 6th, 2006 – 10:09:46 PM
The General Assembly seems, sometimes, hellbent on attacking everything we thought we knew about justice.
Patricia Ticer’s SB 362, a bill bringing Virginia in line with the Supreme Court decision in Roper v. Simmons by restricting the death penalty to adults, passed the House today. The astonishing part is the fact that there were 34 votes [...]
Thursday, December 15th, 2005 – 11:54:47 PM
Virginia orders DNA retesting
“I don’t care if it costs $10 million,” said state Sen. Kenneth W. Stolle (R-Virginia Beach), who chairs the Senate Courts of Justice Committee and is a former police officer. “Whatever it costs. There’s an unacceptable error rate that demands we review all these cases.”
We are lucky we aren’t reexamining these cases [...]
Sunday, November 20th, 2005 – 12:31:17 AM
Today was the WACFL II Congress tournament. I suppose today I offer the Student Congress authorship speech I never got to give (ah, mock politics. They adjourned before I was in line to speak.)
Whipped out at 11 PM before the tournament. All that work for nothing. Ah well.
It seems civilization has advanced rather far. We [...]
Monday, October 10th, 2005 – 01:15:30 AM
Bleary-eyed, after having watched the midnight airing of the gubernatorial debate. First thoughts:
Kaine kicked Kilgore butt.
Tim Kaine was the only candidate offering a positive message, as opposed to Jerry Kilgore, who wouldn’t pledge to keep half of his TV ads positive. Kilgore dodged, bobbed, and weaved.
I will have a more full reaction after some sleep, [...]
Saturday, May 14th, 2005 – 11:29:17 AM
Across the Mason-Dixon line, an entirely new death penalty paradigm takes hold.
State-sponsored executions elicit queasiness up North, but are commonplace in the South.
What does the North see that Virginia doesn’t?
Executing an inmate implies we are absolutely and finally sure he (and it is usually a he) is guilty. This is a presumption of justice [...]
Monday, March 14th, 2005 – 09:48:00 PM
“This is another instance of a 5-4 decision coming from the activist majority of the Supreme Court that is interested in undermining the rights of states to determine what is best for them in terms of setting their public policy.”
Republican AG Bob McDonnell, unhappy with the Supreme Court striking down juvenile executions.
Last time I checked [...]
Thursday, March 3rd, 2005 – 08:48:00 PM
I have always found that the barbaric practice of executing juveniles had no place in America, as I have written before, and the Supreme Court agreed in their landmark decision on Roper v. Simmons. This finally takes us out of the company of countries with such horrific human rights records as Iran.
Virginia gleefully kills (second [...]
Tuesday, February 15th, 2005 – 05:30:00 PM
The Virginian Pilot weighs in on court-appointed counsel:
Living up to the spirit of the U.S. Constitution by providing poor people an adequate legal defense carries a price tag. Unfortunately, the Virginia General Assembly never wants to pay it.
We like to pride ourselves on the notion of justice in America, but in Virginia, justice comes [...]
