Cameron Todd Willingham was executed by the State of Texas on February 17, 2004. He was the seventh person put to death that year in the state, and the 320th person executed since 1982 when Texas resumed executions in the…
Month: August 2014
2014
Category: Uncategorized
On August 15, 2014, Texas Gov. Rick Perry was indicted on felony counts of coercion and official oppression. After the immediate hoopla settled, the serious inquiry began focusing on the motivation for the criminal charges.
Any proper analysis of whether…
2014
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Terrorism Criminology
The recent confrontations between the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department and the city’s African-American community have served at least one purpose: it has shown the entire nation that too many police departments have become militarized units committed to absolute control, rather…
2014
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law
Kentucky is often a state of distinction for the wrong reasons. It ranks in the top ten of the two of the worst categories: corruption and meth labs. Both categories lend support to each other. The Kentucky States Police reported…
2014
According to a November 2013 report by the Urban Institute, the federal prison population has increased 790 percent since 1980. All prisons in the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) are over capacity, some as much as 35 to 40 percent.…