Category: Ethics, Morality & Religion
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This is another reason why the U.S. should abolish capital punishment. We have little moral force when we protest the possible execution of a citizen of another country.
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“The three men spent 18 years behind bars for a brutal crime they said they did not commit. Locked away for life — with one of them sentenced to death — the men thought they would never experience freedom again.”
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Norm recently gave us a civics lesson in why capital punishment should be abolished under the current justice system. Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker explains why many of us, even without an in-depth knowledge of the law feel queasy about the death penalty.
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Philosophically, I am not opposed to the death penalty. However, I believe it should be abolished for a number of practical reasons.
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The remembrance would have been uncomplicated and even calming if we could just recall and mourn the horrific events of the tragic Tuesday exactly ten years ago. But as we well know, the aftermath of the terror that struck at the heart of our collective psyche did not stop at righteous anger, sorrow, reflection, or a thoughtful response to the mindless violence that was wreaked upon thousands of innocent citizens,…
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Pakistan has abolished its Federal Ministry for Religious Minorities as part of a larger plan of government decentralization approved by the Parliament of Pakistan in February….[T]he responsibilities of the ministry will be devolved from the federal level to the provincial level….[I]n practical terms that may mean “removing from the agenda of the central government issues…
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Razib at Brown Pundits. A few people have asked me about the Geert Wilders’ affair. If you don’t know Geert Wilders’ is a right-wing Dutch politician prone to making inflammatory remarks about Islam. He’s been brought to court on the grounds of whether his comments violated the speech laws in much of Europe, which sanction…
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