[Free Beacon] Death row populations remained high and numbers of executions remained low as of the end of 2016, a newly released report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows.
The Death Penalty Information Center already preserves up-to-date lists of executions conducted in the United States, with more recent information available than the BJS has now made available. However, the new report provides vital and not regularly available information on the composition of America's death rows and their shifting composition.
The two-year lag, standard for similar BJS reports, is attributable to time it takes the bureau to acquire, compile, and analyze the relevant data from the 50 state correctional systems.
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Fact. The death rows units are in much the same state as life support ICU's, for basically the same reason. Somebody has to die to empty a bed.
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There's a simple solution. 2 appeals, then into the chamber and turn on the N2. Frankly 12M HCl would be funnier and pay-per-view worthy but oh well.
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Enough death rows cases have been overturned because some prosecutor cut corners or grabbed the wrong guy to get the case closed. I'd be happy if we just built an Alcatraz style (one prisoner per cell, rarely get out of the cell so they can't kill each other) somewhere up in Alaska and take any death row inmate transferred over by the states.
[Breitbart] Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s "America’s Newsroom," Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said "a great conservative revolution" started with the 2016 election of President Donald Trump.
Blackburn said, "Things are looking great, and we’re out and about and working hard and working smart. And that is what we’re going to have to do. I think everybody realizes a great conservative revolution started in this country with the 2016 elections. "
She continued, "People voting to drain the swamp, to return to being a government of, by and for the people, to returning to invigorating that American dream for families and individuals. Putting the focus on securing the southern border, which helps to make our communities and our country safe. And they want more of that. So if you want more of it, they are going to go and vote for candidates that the president is supporting." Recommended 'Journey' sound track for story.
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we’re out and about and working hard and working smart
Tax cut. That's your only claim to fame. Did you repeal Obamacare like you talked about? Did you reign in the budget? Hardly working. PO the electorate that sent you to DC, not smart.
[The Hill] Vice President Pence praised former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of contempt of court, as a "tireless champion of ... the rule of law" during an event in Arizona on Tuesday.
Pence said at the tax event that he was "honored" by the former sheriff’s attendance, and called Arpaio a "great friend of this president and tireless champion of strong borders and the rule of law," to cheers from the crowd.
President Trump last year pardoned Arpaio, a vocal supporter of his on the campaign trail, after he was convicted of contempt of court for refusing to stop racially profiling Hispanic people at traffic stops for immigration checks.
Arpaio, who is running for retiring Sen. Jeff Flake’s (R-Ariz.) Senate seat, filed an appeal in January to have the conviction cleared.
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Arpaio's crime was that he had the audacity to claim and go about trying to prove that Barry Soetoro was not born in the USA. Wouldn't it be a hoot if this were true? Vindication is often sweeter than revenge.
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I'd bet good money Soetoro held at least two passports.
This. American and Indonesian, courtesy of his step-father. I can’t imagine that he actually got a Kenyan passport through his father — he didn’t go there until he was an adult.
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I doubt he was able to tour Karachi, Pakistan for 3 weeks on an American Passport. This visit came soon after visiting his mother in Indonesia, some time in 1981. By the way, the trip was never mention in his campaign.
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He doesn’t look much like Davis or Obama. However, he’s a black spitting image of his maternal grandfather. I subscribe to the theory that he’s the love child of said grandfather and some black hooker, conveniently “adopted” by his “mom”. I’d love to see the DNA, in any case.
[Ynet] An American success vis-à-vis North Korea will weaken Iran’s bargaining position, which in turn will affect Trump’s Israeli-Paleostinian peace plan. There is a difference between a plan presented by an inarticulate and rejected US president and a peace plan presented by a president who has scored significant achievements in the international arena.
Wasn’t there a best seller a while back about the art of the deal?
In 1994, something seemed to be happening between the United States and North Korea. With former US President Jimmy Carter ...only the second worst president ever... ’s help, Kim Il-sung, the nuclearizing country’s former leader, vowed to halt the nuclear development in exchange for international aid.
[DAWN] SURELY there is no community more beleaguered in Pakistain than the Shia Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... s. Recent events in Quetta have once again underscored that grim reality. Six Hazara men were rubbed out and one injured in four separate attacks, all in the month of April. Protesting community members have staged a sit-in outside the Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Assembly building, while a group of Hazara women, led by young lawyer Jalila Haider, has gone on hunger strike outside the Quetta Press Club. They are demanding that assassinations of Hazaras end immediately, the perpetrators be placed in durance vile Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! , and the army chief meet the protesters so they can personally apprise him of the community’s plight.
What the Hazaras have had to endure over the last several years in Balochistan is nothing less than a blot on this nation. Hundreds of them have been murdered in sectarian attacks, largely in the form of assassinations or devastating truck bombings. They have been driven into enforced ghettoisation for the sake of safety, rendering their children’s education disrupted and thriving businesses abandoned. Tens of thousands have chosen to risk the perils of illegal migration to Australia over their restricted existence and the dangers that lurk on the streets of the province’s heavily securitised capital. Time and again the community has protested, demanding that the state ensure their right to life. Who can forget the gut-wrenching sight of thousands of Hazaras in February 2013, following a massive bombing in Quetta that killed over 100 and maimed twice that many, refusing to bury their dead until the military took immediate action against sectarian terrorists? The rest of the country too was vocal in its solidarity with them at the time. Now however, that outrage is absent as is the demand for accountability. The media is paying but perfunctory attention, instead of keeping the issue front and centre. The slow yet steady decimation of the Hazara community has been relegated to a footnote, even as we congratulate ourselves for having triumphed over violent extremism.
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[The Federalist] On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented documents to the world that prove Iran lied for years about its peaceful intentions. Netanyahu claims that in 2017 the Iranians moved "a comprehensive program to design, build and test nuclear weapons" to a secret location, and that a few weeks ago Mossad agents procured a half ton of that material and smuggled it out of the country. The United States has reportedly confirmed the authenticity of the documents.
The Iran deal, it’s worth remembering, is likely the only international accord the United States has entered into where it offered extensive concessions to a nation that continued to destabilize its interests, kill its soldiers, and threaten its allies. In return, we asked for nothing other than a promise that Iran uphold its preexisting obligations. The Islamic state, we shouldn’t forget, was already a signee to the non-proliferation agreements when the Obama administration saved its economy and reinvigorated its military.
It’s also worth remembering what we’ve given up for this deal. From the start there was almost nothing Obama wouldn’t do to save it. To pass it, the administration created (then bragged about) a media echo chamber that smeared the opposition at home. Obama accused those who opposed the accord of being in "common cause" with Islamists, offering the ludicrous false choice: his way or war. Some of the nastiest attacks were reserved for fellow Democrats like Chuck Schumer, whose tepid pushback triggered Obama flunkies to accuse of him of harboring dual loyalty.
Then there was the constant subjugation of American interests to placate the Iranians. First, Obama made "common cause" with Russia and Syria. It seems increasingly plausible, in fact, that the president was hamstrung in Syria because he wanted to avoid upsetting the Iranians and Russians. Vladimir Putin, the man who helped Iran create its nuclear program, was a fan of the deal. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was also an admirer, confident that Iran would continue its "just causes" after the deal was wrapped up. What could he possibly mean?
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The Iran deal "disaster" actually began 20 January 2009.
[Townhall] By May 12 President Trump will make a decision about whether to re-certify or nix the Iran nuclear agreement.
European allies are urging the president to work with them on a number of fixes by addressing the sunset clause and targeting Iran's destabilizing behavior in the region. The Israelis, who presented a trove of evidence Monday showing Iran lied about a previous nuclear program they never acknowledged existed, are urging President Trump to "do the right thing" by getting out of the deal.
But former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tried to cool the temperature Tuesday morning during an interview on Fox News and said everything will be fine if the United States decides to leave the agreement.
"I actually think if we pull out now, it’s not going to be the disaster that everyone’s talking about," Rice said. "I would not have signed this deal. I don't think it was a good deal and that we were in a hurry to get a deal."
"If we get out of this deal, it will be just fine," she continued.
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That's how it usually works around here. USA makes messes, and Israel fixes them. And then USA complains because the fix is not what they had in mind.
by Sarah Hoyt h/t Instapundit
[PJMedia] I woke up this morning and realized it was May Day ‐ and was unutterably relieved things have changed from the May Days of my childhood.
May Day was a holiday ‐ no work/school ‐ being International Worker’s Day. I remember dreary days with nothing on the TV but the might of the USSR and its satellites, in fantastic display.
Troops and groups of workers, flying red flags paraded before podiums ornamented with red paraphernalia, a seemingly invincible might, a proud and unquestionably enthusiastic multitude of workers and soldiers, of farmers and peasants. It seemed the whole world was submerged in red for the occasion, and our own local idiots would demonstrate and commit acts of senseless violence, which was the reason I resorted to the TV. Mom wouldn’t let me go out.
...This was the seventies, and in 20 years all that might, all that "efficiency" and all that pride would be revealed for what they were: a hollow shell, a projection of force abroad, a shout of defiance from a dying, sclerotic regime, upon which the dead hand of the past and the even deader hand of Marx weighed like the agonies of death. Of course, you'd never hear any of this by asking an average college student
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When I was in primary school, I got "immunized" against the Reds by reading about the Hungarian uprising & hearing from my Polish grandfather about what his cousins in the old country had to put up with. My mother thought "communist" was a dirty word.
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I knew a professor at the local university. If you looked closely you would notice that his wife never used her left hand -- it had withered after she was wounded by Soviet machine gun fire fleeing Hungary in '56. I remember going to the State Fair and seeing the Lippizans... The announcer announced that they had been saved from the "HaRussssiannnns...*Spit!*"
So Soviet Communism has never given me a that warm fuzzy feeling.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Ynet] An American success vis-à-vis North Korea will weaken Iran’s bargaining position, which in turn will affect Trump’s Israeli-Paleostinian peace plan. There is a difference between a plan presented by an inarticulate and rejected US president and a peace plan presented by a president who has scored significant achievements in the international arena.
[The Federalist] On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented documents to the world that prove Iran lied for years about its peaceful intentions. Netanyahu claims that in 2017 the Iranians moved "a comprehensive program to design, build and test nuclear weapons" to a secret location, and that a few weeks ago Mossad agents procured a half ton of that material and smuggled it out of the country. The United States has reportedly confirmed the authenticity of the documents.
