Posted in crime, death penalty, education, ethics, punishment, revenve on May 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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In Illinois it takes 12 jurors to unanimously recommend the death penalty in order for that sentence to be imposed. One juror chose to spare the life of Juan Luna, convicted of multiple murder at a Brown’s Chicken store in the Chicagoland area.While we may never know the motives of the holdout, unless [...]
Posted in Bush, Gonzales, Karl Rove, Politics, Scandal, White House, crime, ethics, hubris, presidency on May 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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More trouble for the Bush White House it seems. Apparently there is no absence of arrogance at the White House, lessons learned from the Nixon White House no doubt. As the scandals grow around this administration, Bush grows more determined to wallow in the disaster of Iraq, support his buddies Gonzales and [...]
Posted in capital punishment, crime, death penalty on May 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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Ray Lesniak, a New Jersey democrat and former supporter of the death penalty said:he changed his mind largely because of the risk of executing an innocent person.
The important point in considering the abolition of capital punishment is just this–to insure not putting an innocent person to death.
There are, of course, other reasons to not [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, Educational Policy, crime, education, ethics, police, pop culture, teaching, writing instruction on April 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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The Chicago Tribune finally addressed the issue of the Cary-Grove High School response to Allan Lee’s response to a senior English writing assignment. I add some additional quotes from the article below:
Involving the police struck Jim Barnabee as overkill. He is a creative-writing instructor at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire and, like most [...]
Posted in Culture, Politics, Research, crime, education, gun control, guns, pop culture on April 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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The most recent Gallup Poll (done before VT) indicates that the majority of Americans favor a combination of new legislation and stricter enforcement of existing gun control laws. The poll also indicates that only a minority of American homes (43%) indicate gun ownership, the majority of those households are in the South or [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, Educational Policy, crime, education, learning, police, writing instruction on April 27, 2007 | 7 Comments »
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Allen Lee, an 18 year old straight “A” student at Cary-Grove High School, was arrested for thinking violent thoughts and charged with two counts of disorderly conduct. Lee’s senior English teacher, after reading what Lee wrote in response to a “Free Writing” assignment was disturbed enough to report the incident to the school’s [...]
Posted in DNA, crime, punishment on April 24, 2007 | 5 Comments »
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It is chilling to think how many potentially innocent people languish in US prisons falsely convicted of crimes. It is even more frightening ti think how many people who are falsely convicted face the ultimate penalty in the United States.This story tells the story of a man who spent 25 years of his [...]
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