death penalty

• Why the death penalty is a very very bad thing
  Posted on September 17, 2011 by Louise Restell
  I wonder how many of the nearly 30,000 people who have signed the e-petition to bring back the death penalty have ever heard of Todd Willingham. He was executed in Texas in February 2004 for the murder of his three young children, despite consistently protesting his innocence and serious doubts about the scientific evidence used to convict him.
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  Posted in: Uncategorized
  Tagged: death penalty, justice, Rick Perry, Todd Willingham, Troy Davis, USA
• Why we should send Gaddafi and his awful outfits to the ICC
  Posted on August 30, 2011 by Louise Restell
  Normally I associate the 1980s with the Thatcher government, the miners’ strike, the Falklands war and alarming fashion decisions.  I often forget it was also the decade that saw the end of apartheid in South Africa and the Berlin wall.  But watching the Arab Spring spread across the Middle East has reminded me that these international events had as big an influence on me as did events on my own doorstep.
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  Posted in: Courts
  Tagged: Amnesty International, David Cameron, death penalty, Gaddafi, human rights, ICC, international law, justice, Libya, Robespierre, UN Security Council