The Insanity of the Insanity Defense
Most violent criminals are not mentally ill or psychotic at all. They are evil and should be held responsible for their actions.
Most violent criminals are not mentally ill or psychotic at all. They are evil and should be held responsible for their actions.
New York Times | IAN URBINA | Posted 11.02.2009 | Home
A neighbor of the convicted rapist in Cleveland who was arrested Saturday night after six decomposed bodies were found in his house said Monday that t...
Geri Spieler | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
Timing is everything when you are convicted of murder. Sentencing is all about timing. Guidelines change, and so do prison sentences.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.30.2009 | Entertainment
It is outrageously offensive to see the outpouring of support for Polanski from the world's elite artist-class. Are there two sets of laws according to these people?
Patrick Boyle | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
Jaycee Dugard's kidnapping story got me thinking about the day I got a call from a distraught child molester. I had gotten to know Carl well when he ...
John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Even the most well-cared-for children can fall prey to sex trafficking and become global sexual commodities.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
Oh dear. On Labor Day, the Orange County Register published a column by Mark Whicker that I fear is the odds-on favorite to be the Worst Newspaper Co...
Marina Cantacuzino | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
A distinction must be made between evil acts and evil people and, hard as it is to acknowledge, somewhere amidst the tangle of Phillip Garrido's depraved thinking lies a flicker of humanity.
AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — The town where Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped 18 years ago celebrated her astounding reappearance with a parade Sund...
Michael Wolff | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
There is a great morbid curiosity about Jaycee Dugard and her imprisonment, but nobody is drawing any conclusions about what this might say about the American character.
AP | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media
ANTIOCH, Calif. — Revelations that Jaycee Lee Dugard was allegedly imprisoned for 18 years at a convicted sex offender's home have sparked cash-...
Posted 10.18.2009 | Home
Nancy Garrido, wife of Phillip Garrido, the man police accuse of kidnapping 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard in 1991 and fathered two children with her, "lov...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media
On last night's edition of Larry King Live, the late night host was reporting on the recent arrest of Phillip Garrido, a monstrous psychopath who abdu...
Jane Devin | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
The most unsettling thing about the Dugard case is the staggering number of times law enforcement failed in their duty to properly monitor a registered sex offender.
Posted 10.16.2009 | Home
Authorities have announced that they found a bone fragment on the property where Jaycee Dugard, the 11-year-old girl who has been missing since 1991 w...
Doyle Albee | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Let's to do everything in our power to stop true sexual crimes, including ensuring the names on lists of sexual offenders deserve to be there.
The New York Times | MARIA NEWMAN and JESSE McKINLEY | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home
Law enforcement authorities were in Phillip Garrido's house at least twice in the last three years, but never discovered that a young woman he had all...
Robert David Jaffee | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media