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...outlawed death sentences for the mentally retarded. He notes that since 1989 five states have banned capital punishment for juveniles, making the practice illegal in 30 states, including the 12 with an outright ban on executions. Second, Kennedy cites scientific literature showing that, like the retarded, adolescents lack mature judgment and a full appreciation of the consequences of their actions. They are also more vulnerable than adults to peer pressure. Third, Kennedy points out that only seven other countries have executed juvenile offenders since 1990, and all seven have repudiated the practice: "The United States now stands alone...
...Muslim schoolgirl won the right to wear the all-enveloping jilbab in class, with London's Court of Appeal ruling that a ban on the garment by her school in central England was an infringement of the European Convention on Human Rights. But legal experts predicted that the judgment will have no effect on a ban in France on students displaying conspicuous symbols of religious faith, as the European Court of Human Rights tends to leave such decisions to individual governments. Eloquent in Death AZERBAIJAN Thousands of opposition supporters attended the funeral of murdered journalist Elmar Huseynov in Baku, despite...
...that pledge is less than reassuring. Keefe presents evidence suggesting that illegal surveillance happens all the time—in intercepting communications of U.S. citizens involved in anti-war and civil-rights activities, for example. Yet he purposefully reserves judgment on the frightening implications of his anecdotes, seeming to use these thrilling tidbits merely to keep his readers’ attention...
...made perfect sense that Summers’ “gaffes” at the University were widely reported in the media. The press, in its attempt at objectivity, avoided passing judgment on the impropriety of his remarks and instead deferred that duty to the Harvard faculty—a famously liberal group whose outrage made the stories as big as they were...
Larry Summers has learned a lot in the past few weeks about the problem of judgment on the basis of identity over merit. On the one hand, his critics are concerned that he is encouraging society to evaluate women based on their gender and not on their intellectual aptitudes. And on the other hand, Summers himself has been judged, at least in part, not on the value of what it was he actually said at that now-infamous National Bureau of Economic Research conference (in point of fact we didn’t even find out the content...