Rep. Rev. Steve Hickey (R-9/Sioux Falls) made waves last summer when he told his parishioners (strangely long word... what if we said parishites?) that he had changed his mind on capital punishment. The Christian conservative said in June that he…
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A pox on Steve Hickey for getting me to listen to a 48-minute sermon. But when a conservative Republican pastor-legislator (hyphenate with caution!) reverses his position on capital punishment and declares his intent to float a bill in the 2014…
Mr. Kurtz further drives my blog cycle with this note from the Montana ACLU celebrating a judge's suspension of Montana's death penalty. Judge Jeffrey Sherlock found three problems with Montana's lethal injection protocol: The requirement that the warden be the…
Against my advice, Judge Bradley Zell sentenced confessed killer Eric Robert to death yesterday. South Dakota is thus doing exactly what the killer wants: succumbing to the fear and anger he uses to control others. [Judge Zell] said Robert's positive…
I will not cheer the death penalty. If Judge Bradley Zell sends Eric Robert to the electric chair, I will not say, "Let him die," certainly not with enthusiasm. But Eric Robert's own cold courtroom confession to the murder of…