TagsTagsFlorida Republican legislator Brad Drake thinks criminals who get the death penalty aren't suffering enough, so he's introduced a bill that would eliminate lethal injections and bring back firing squads. Yes, really. A bill filed Tuesday by Rep. Brad Drake, R-Eucheeanna, would allow for executions by firing squad. HB 325 ...
Republican Party, Religious Right, Death Penalty, barbarism, Bad Craziness, Reactionary
And then we have the other memorable Rick Perry moment from last night's debate, when he boasted that he's "never struggled" with the fact that he holds the record for the most executions presided over by any modern governor: 234. This provoked enthusiastic cheers from the conservative audience, which is unfortunately ...
Debate, Right Wing, Death Penalty, Execution, Texas, Rick Perry
A reminder that in some parts of the world, "theocracy" is not just the fervent desire of fanatics -- it's the dominant paradigm: Pakistanis Rally in Support of Blasphemy Law. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A crippling strike by Islamist parties brought Pakistan to a standstill on Friday as thousands of people ...
In Texas, DNA testing has revealed that the key evidence against a man convicted of murder and put to death by then-Gov. George W. Bush was wrong. Claude Jones always claimed that he wasn’t the man who walked into an East Texas liquor store in 1989 and shot the owner. ...
Far right evangelist Lou Engle (last featured at LGF for supporting the criminalization of homosexuality, and saying there’s a Biblical basis for executing gays) is whining and seething about the Supreme Court decision that Christian groups on public campuses must allow the dreaded ghey amongst their pious gatherings. Engle thinks this ...
Uganda, Homophobia, Death Penalty, Religious Right, Lou Engle, social conservatism, Bigotry
Far right evangelist Lou Engle is highly influential among the social conservative wing of the GOP (which is pretty much the entire GOP); he has hosted “prayercasts” attended by top Republican politicians including former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and is involved in many other high profile political activities. And this “man ...
Uganda, Homophobia, Death Penalty, Religious Right, Lou Engle, social conservatism, Bigotry
The DC sniper was executed tonight. Jarratt, VIRGINIA (Reuters) - John Allen Muhammad was executed on Tuesday for masterminding and carrying out with his teenage accomplice the 2002 sniper shootings that killed 10 people and terrified the Washington, D.C. region a year after the September 11 and the deadly anthrax ...
DC Snipers, John Allen Muhammad, Lee Boyd Malvo, Terrorism, Death Penalty
DC sniper John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection tonight at 9 pm in Virginia. ABC News’ Russell Goldman interviewed one of Muhammad’s (and teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo’s) victims, Paul LaRuffa, who amazingly survived five gunshots at close range: Survivor of Beltway Sniper Wants Justice, Gov. ...
DC Snipers, John Allen Muhammad, Lee Boyd Malvo, Terrorism, Death Penalty
Fresh from their absurd botching of the case against Slobodan Milosevic, the World Kangaroo Court is now ordering the United States to delay death sentences for five Mexicans—including one convicted of the gang rape and murder of two teenage girls: World Court: U.S. must delay Mexican death sentences. THE HAGUE ...
In the apartheid theocracy of Saudi Arabia, a Turkish barber has been condemned to death by beheading for blasphemy. HATAY - A Saudi Arabian court on Thursday ratified the conviction of Turkish barber Sabri Bogday, who was sentenced to beheading in Saudi Arabia on charges of “cursing the name of ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Beheading, Death Penalty, barbarism, Sharia, Shari'a, Islam
From Kuwait’s Al-Risala TV, November 5, 2007, here’s a sort of town hall meeting in which Muslim scholars and audience members discuss the fine points and religious justifications for killing people who decide to convert away from Islam. The audience is scarier than the “scholars” in this one. (Courtesy of ...
LGF, Video, MEMRI TV, Kuwait, Islam, Apostasy, Death Penalty
The Washington Post and Newsweek have been publishing a series of articles by Islamic advocates (in one case, a Hizballah terrorist) denying, among other things, that the penalty for leaving Islam is death. But Egyptian Mohammed Hegazy, who converted to Christianity, isn’t much interested in the academic arguments; he’s too busy ...
LGF reader Ralph forwarded a cartoon that’s appearing in German newspapers in reaction to the female judge in Frankfurt who ruled that the Koran allows wife beating: Oh, it’s a custom from the old country?! Why didn’t you say so!
Germany, Islam, Radical Islam, Shari'a, Death Penalty, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Multiculturalism
The nihilistic dead end of multiculturalism has been attained in Germany, where a female judge seemingly forgot which culture’s laws she was supposed to uphold: German judge rules Koran allows wife abuse. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BERLIN (AFP) - A German woman judge has refused a Moroccan-born woman permission to file ...
Germany, Islam, Radical Islam, Shari'a, Death Penalty, Misogyny, Women's Rights
At Spiegel Online, two paragraphs in a long piece on “Religious Divisions within Germany” illustrate a heartbreaking truth about the misogyny of Islamic supremacism: A Parallel Muslim Universe. (Hat tip: Sugiero.) In another regional case, the judges had to decide whether a class excursion was mandatory for a Muslim girl. In ...
Germany, Islam, Radical Islam, Shari'a, Death Penalty, Misogyny, Women's Rights
Sugiero has lots of interesting detail on the German organization for ex-Muslims, whose leader recently asked for police protection after receiving death threats from representatives of the Religion of Women’s Rights™: Ex-Muslim Says ‘Islam Inherently Radical’. Arzu Toker, deputy chairwoman, used a news conference to announce her separation from Islam: ‘I ...
Germany, Islam, Radical Islam, Apostasy, Shari'a, Death Penalty, Misogyny, Women's Rights
In Germany, the leader of a group of ex-Muslims has asked for police protection after receiving death threats from members of the Religion of Peace™. (Hat tip: Keith.) COLOGNE, Germany, Feb. 23 (UPI) — The founder of a group in Germany for former Muslims has sought police protection after receiving death ...
Germany, Islam, Radical Islam, Apostasy, Shari'a, Death Penalty
It took only a few days for Zacarias Moussaoui to begin trying to work the American legal system again: Moussaoui asks for new trial. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Less than a week after he was jailed for life over the September 11 attacks, Al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui submitted a motion asking ...
Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11, Islam, Death Penalty, Life Sentence
They’re telling us that these will be Zacarias Moussaoui’s final public words: Moussaoui: U.S. Will Never Catch Bin Laden. “God save Osama bin Laden — you will never get him,” Moussaoui declared moments after walking into the courtroom flashing a victory sign. “You have branded me as a terrorist or a criminal ...
Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11, Islam, Death Penalty, Life Sentence, France
The lawyer for Zacarias Moussaoui’s mother says, “The fight isn’t over — far from it.” The lawyer for Zacarias Moussaoui’s mother expressed delight Wednesday that the Frenchman was spared the death penalty, and vowed to lead a legal battle to bring the al-Qaida conspirator home. A federal jury in Alexandria, Va., on ...
Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11, Islam, Death Penalty, Life Sentence, France
According to this AP release at the Jerusalem Post, France is offering Zacarias Moussaoui consular protection. The French government is offering Zacarias Moussaoui the consular protection he deserves as a French national, but so far the al-Qaida conspirator has not asked for it, the French Embassy said Wednesday. In a press communique, ...
Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11, Islam, Death Penalty, Life Sentence, France
Allahpundit’s going through the juror answers in the Zacarias Moussaoui death penalty trial, and he’s found the only two mitigating factors that a majority of jurors agreed the defense had proved: He had a rough childhood. UPDATE at 5/3/06 6:16:23 pm: I wonder what sort of childhood this person (no way to ...
Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11, Islam, Death Penalty, Life Sentence
In January 2002, I wrote this about the decision to try Zacarias Moussaoui in a criminal court: A criminal trial is too good for the likes of Zacarias Moussaoui, who by any definition of the words has to be considered a spy and a saboteur. But he will now be afforded ...
Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11, Islam, Death Penalty, Life Sentence
Moussaoui Gets Life in Prison. A federal jury decided Wednesday al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui deserves life in prison for his role in the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history, on Sept. 11, 2001. On the seventh day of deliberation, the jury of nine men and three women informed Judge Leonie Brinkema ...
Robert Spencer rips apart another deceptive article from Islamic dissembler Stephen Schwartz: Jihad Watch: Disingenuousness about apostasy law. Islamic apologist Stephen Schwartz, who has responded with intemperate hostility in the past to my attempts to open a serious dialogue, has misrepresented Islamic apostasy law, specifically that of the Shafi’i school of ...
Apostasy, Islam, Death Penalty, Stephen Schwartz, Robert Spencer