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That's one reason the Jan. 22 sentencing?in a traditional U.S. courtroom?of Brooklyn, N.Y., native Jose Padilla to more than 17 years in prison for terrorist conspiracy has attracted attention. Soon after Padilla's arrest in 2002, he was designated an enemy combatant and faced years of alleged abuse, including stress positions and extreme sleep deprivation, in the isolation of a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C. Eventually, a legal challenge made the government drop Padilla's enemy-combatant status, and he was permitted to face charges?conspiracy and providing aid to foreign terrorists?in federal court...
...Should Timothy Mcveigh be sitting in a prison cell watching TV for killing 168 people and injuring 850 in Oklahoma City? No, he deserved to die. People want to fix what isn't broken and not fix what is broken. What is broken is the justice system that allows appeals to go on for 10 to 30 years. It is a system devised by lawyers, the only ones who benefit from it. Attacking the use of the chemicals is just one more excuse to end the death penalty. We need the death penalty to protect our policemen and the most...
SHOULD TIMOTHY MCVEIGH BE SITTING IN a prison cell watching TV for killing 168 people and injuring 850 in Oklahoma City? No, he deserved to die. People want to fix what isn't broken and not fix what is broken. What is broken is the justice system that allows appeals to go on from 10 to 30 years. It is a system devised by lawyers, the only ones who benefit from it. Attacking the use of the chemical solutions is just one more excuse to end the death penalty. We need the death penalty to protect our policemen...
Before the gears of a third trial could begin to turn, Alexander Pring-Wilson pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter Friday. He was sentenced to two years and one day in prison...
Pring-Wilson was convicted of manslaughter in October 2004 and sentenced to six to eight years in prison. In 2005, Pring-Wilson was granted a retrial after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that evidence of a victim’s violent history could be used in self-defense cases...