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It has now been nine years since that horrific tragedy. As we mark the occasion, we sincerely hope that all those affected by it are healing and finding peace in their lives.
- Forever One Memorial to break ground Friday near Route 91 shooting site. [RJ]
- How Nevada law handles consent when alcohol is involved. [RJ]
- Lawsuit: Las Vegas hospital falsely told mother her son was dead. [RJ]
- Las Vegas man involved in murder investigation says he acted in self-defense. [8NewsNow]
- Tennessee: After Two Lethal Injection Attempts, Christa Pike Transported to Hospital Following Failed Execution. [Nashville Banner]
- John Roberts and His Island. [NY Times]
https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/hope-for-prisoners-founder-accused-of-sex-crimes-against-7-women-judge-sets-bail-at-1m/
anyone who helped prop this guy up is complicit
Like his dear friend Steve Wolfson, who happens to be prosecuting him? Or Steve Wolfson’s otther dear friend David Chesnoff, who happens to be representing him?
Looks like it’s actually Draskovich, not Chesnoff.
I worked with Ponder on a few things almost ten years ago—I found him rude, entitled, almost king-like. I got bad bad vibes about him and HFP as a whole—cultish. I’m not surprised in the least that his “program” was basically a front. It seemed like smoke and mirrors years ago even.
I have worked with HfP and it was formerly a good organization that actually did good for motivated offenders. However as Kristina Wildeveld has been much more public in saying than I am willing to be, the organization lost its way as Ponder got drunk with power and made the organization about him and not offenders. There is a reason HFP has cycled through abused staff faster than Elizabeth Halvorson ever could. The organization was not smoke and mirrors. Like so many things it did good things for a long time.
Some information for those of you trying to get records from the Nevada Secretary of State. Our office was told yesterday that if you need any records from pre-2019 that it will be weeks before your order can reliably be processed due to problems with the new system such that NVSOS has to send someone to the archives for printed records.
If the methods of execution do not work well, how do the countries that have compassionate killing programs do it? Is it that difficult? If one fails or causes pain and suffering then are EU countries and Canada that have managed death programs just evil?
Putting aside the moral difference between a patient going forward with medically assisted suicide after being informed about the risks and giving consent, on the one hand, and strapping someone down to kill them without their consent, on the other, one issue is that many companies that make drugs that are useful for killing people refuse to provide the drugs for use in capital punishment. So states have to use less-effective substitutes. Similarly, AMA ethics prohibit doctors from participating in executions, so states often have to take anyone willing to help, even if they don’t have the right training, experience or skill.
except as we are aware, they don’t necessarily give informed consent in canada – where they basically murder you if they desire
that certainly sounds plausible. Canada: we murder you, no questions asked. lolololol
From a legal perspective, I find the death penalty fascinating. Not long ago our society was hanging people in the streets. Now society has shifted drastically to the point where it seems sentiment wants it abolished and DA’s wont push for it anymore.
Death penalty should be by firing squad. One bullet to the heart. No watching someone languish with poison gas, lethal injection or the chair.
Yep cuz there’s no way for that to go wrong or cause someone to languish.
Lethal injection is to sanitize the act for the public and other participants. By placing the execution in a setting with a medical aesthetic, we mask the barbary of the act. Lethal injection imposes needless suffering on the inmate to save the conscious of the public. A bullet to the head happens so fast the inmate cannot and is not aware of it. Not only should firing squad ALWAYS be the means of execution, it should be broadcast on primetime TV and any other means possible to maximize the number of people who see the reality of what we are doing. Every citizen should be forced to watch the inmates brains blown all over the place so that everyone understands what the state, and by extension, we the people, are doing.
Few would argue that public safety is not one of government’s legitimate roles.
The question then becomes, does execution of the most heinous and violent murderers further the cause of public safety? Discuss.
This. It is patently absurd that we care about the visuals while putting someone to death. We are okay with killing someone, but heaven forbid it look like we are killing someone. It’s very strange. If we aren’t okay with the inherent violence involved in killing someone, then we should get out of the business of killing people.
As the Christa Pike case showed: (1) lethal injection can cause real pain (and non-lethal injection even more pain) and (2) DoC people are largely unqualified dregs who you would not find capable of humanely euthanizing animals. We have people writhe in the middle of capital punishment all of the time, and we really do not care unless and until its a Holly Hunter lookalike.
Should we also televise ad make compulsory watching abortions?
1:20 PM here. Absolutely. Let’s make the dogmatic blowhards on the far right and far left sit with the violent discomfort of their inconsistent positions.
Make compulsory watching… people making their own health care decisions?
Bring back hanging. It seems to work in Iran to deter everything.
lol @ u
an execution…don’t you mean a sentence of irreversible release from incarceration?
I’ve seen death-row lawyers sue to try to get their client killed using firing squad. It’s the state that opposes it – almost always successfully.
The Nuremberg defendants sought to have a military execution death sentence carried out by firing squad. Instead they were brutally hung and mostly died by strangulation.
Trump says he blew it nominating Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett.
https://www.8newsnow.com/news/national-news/trump-says-he-regrets-nominating-gorsuch-kavanaugh-and-barrett/
Hopefully, these comments will make the Trump nominees feel liberated, not intimidated.
I agree Trump messed up with those nominations, albeit for very different reasons. But who wants to have control over their own reproductive health anyway, amirite? What am I even complaining about? These folks clearly know more about my medical decisionmaking than I do.
Trump should have nominated Jeanine Pirro, Andrew Napalitano, the legal intern at Fox News & Mike Lee if he really wanted fellatiating boot lickers.
This makes me like Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett more. They are doing exactly what their job requires them to do: be neutral and don’t give Trump the power of a king.