Tag / crime
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Another Stab at the Death Penalty
Last year I argued that the frequently employed cocktail of questionably sourced sedatives and heart-stopping drugs is unreliable, and that its use in lethal injections for condemned criminals in the United States amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. (Re: Cruel and Usual, WUPR 21.2.) But what is “cruel and unusual,” really? This language, pulled directly…
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Wash U and its Community
BY MADELEINE SHER I was coming up the stairs from doing laundry in the basement when I hear a loud, raucous yelling from a large group of people. I went into the kitchen and looked out the window and saw them all in the street, just in front of the old Delmar Transit station. This…
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Devil in the Black City
BY GABE RUBIN In any other year, Chicago’s 506 murders would have been treated as a passing, local travesty. But in the year of Newtown and Aurora, violent death in American urban warzones is finally trendy enough for the New York Times and CNN. President Barack Obama even stopped by his adopted hometown long enough…
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Stop Comparing Atrocities
I’m usually the first to complain (smugly, I’ll admit) about how much the mainstream media fixates on crime stories. By the same token, I don’t like when preachy journalists denounce the media for covering crime stories, thereby covering that same crime story even more. Either way, I promised myself I wouldn’t write about the Penn…
