"Tech-savvy disabled teen, being beaten for using a website not approved of by hyper-luddite father who's a FAMILY LAW JUDGE..."

"... films it and uses that footage as retaliation to (probably) destroy his career? If you gave me that plot as a TV movie, I'd te...

"I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty."

Roseanne Barr is a comedian. It's irrelevant whether you find this funny or not. She's laboring in the field of comedy: "I fi...

"Abolishing capital punishment in a kind of despair over its fallibility would... would tell the public that our laws and courts and juries are fundamentally incapable of delivering what most Americans consider genuine justice.."

Ross Douthat write: It could encourage a more cynical and utilitarian view of why police forces and prisons exist, and what moral standards ...

"Widener Law School goes Soviet, demands law professor undergo psychiatric evaluation."

The continuing saga of Lawrence Connell , who "was vindicated on a wide range of charges," but found to have violated a policy aga...

"A physician was to drop acid... into the eyes of Majid Movahed... to punish him for throwing acid in the face of Ameneh Bahrami seven years ago."

Bahrami, who was blinded, had insisted on the eye-for-an-eye punishment, under Islamic law: "However in the last minute, Ameneh changed...

"Don’t call my bluff."

It's what Obama said when he stormed out of the debt-talks yesterday . Let's analyze it. Glenn Reynolds says: UM, ISN’T THIS A CASE ...

"Certainly my defense of flogging is more thought experiment than policy proposal."

"I do not expect to see flogging reinstated any time soon. And deep down, I wouldn't want to see it. And yet, in the course of writ...

"It was just a pro se prisoner petition in a big stack of IFPs that normally would be short-formed with a quick 'Splitless, factbound, I recommend DENY.'"

Orin Kerr puzzles over Justice Sotomayor's "rather remarkable dissent from denial of certiorari in Pitre v. Cain , a pro se Eighth...

What did Rick Warren have in mind when he asked does evil exist and what do we do about it?

A segment from my new Bloggingheads with Bob Wright is almost all about evil (but look at the tags to get an idea of the subjects covered):

China sentences Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang Xiuying, 77, to "re-education through labor."

For the crime of not taking "no" for an answer. So the government set up "protest zones" in various parks for people who...

3 arguments.... 1 logic error.

But can you explain the error?

The Washington Post says the Supreme Court's mistake requires it to reconsider the ban on the death penalty for rape of a child.

It's absolutely right: The majority determined that capital punishment for child rape was unconstitutional, in part because a national c...