On Valentine’s Day 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was the scene of a brutal school shooting that killed 14 students, three staff members and injured another 17. Earlier this month, the terrible person behind the attack, 24-year-old Nikolas Cruz, was sentenced to a life in prison after “a Florida […]
Tag: Death Penalty
Capital punishment is not enough to deter drug dealers
Photo courtesy of The White House, Wikipedia Two weeks ago President Donald Trump touted his blistering plan to execute drug dealers complicit in drug-induced homicide to curb the addiction problem engulfing our country. Around 60,000 people overdosed last year compared to 20,000 in 2002 according to the NDIA, infiltrating communities […]
Robert Pruett was unjustly given lethal injection
Photo courtesy of Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Wikipedia After 18 years of pleading for innocence, Robert Pruett faced his death after lethal injection last Thursday in Huntsville, Texas. Pruett landed his spot in the Texas prison system at the young age of 15 as an accomplice for a murder […]
Student: ‘Killing Tsarnaev Will Not Bring Back the People Lost’
Photo by Steve Fallon Since the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, the most deadly terrorist attack on United States soil since 9/11, which killed three and wounded 264, much anger and rage has been directed toward the surviving perpetrator of the crime, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — and justifiably so. Tamerlan […]