USA

• 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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  Tagged: death penalty, justice, Rick Perry, Todd Willingham, Troy Davis, USA
• It's no walk in the park for DSK
  Posted on August 25, 2011 by Louise Restell
  There are quite a lot of things I admire about the French.  They make great cheese and damn fine wine, which they drink sensibly and often.  They have ensured their beautiful capital city is not overshadowed by horrid skyscrapers and they are, on the whole, pretty stylish.  I also like their devil-may-care attitude to anything they don’t approve of and I even have a grudging respect for their trade unions as they fly in the face of laissez-faire economics.
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  Tagged: Chris Jeffries, contempt of court, DSK, France, justice, perp walk, presumption of innocence, rape, USA