Woman Accused Of Locking 4 Kids In Dog Cage In Basement
GRAFTON, N.D. (AP) — A woman is accused of locking four young children in a dog cage in a North Dakota basement and turning out the lights as punishment. –…
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Punishment for using Facebook in prison: Solitary confinement
They likely wouldn’t have spent all that time in solitary confinement anyway. As a result of such long sentences, the South Carolina Department of Corrections has been forced to suspend…
Oklahoma Wants To Reinstate The Gas Chamber, And Experts Say It’s A Bad Idea
Facing dwindling supplies of lethal injection chemicals and increased legal scrutiny of the practice, some states are considering a return to antiquated execution methods like firing squads and gas chambers…
Why Some School Principals In Florida Still Spank Students
Corporal punishment is ineffective and should be banned, according to a new report that studied the use of physical discipline in Florida school districts. In the study, “Corporal Punishment In…
One Democrat Wants To Bring The Death Penalty Back To Michigan — But It Won’t Be Easy
A Democratic lawmaker wants to bring the death penalty back to the first English-speaking territory to abolish capital punishment, but experts — and one of the lawmakers he needs to…
Pope says it’s OK to spank children if you don’t demean them
“I once heard at a wedding a father say, ‘I sometimes have to hit my children a little but never in the face, so as to not demean them.’ How…
GOP Lawmaker: Pregnancy From Rape ‘Is The Silver Lining’
A Republican state lawmaker called pregnancy from rape “the silver lining” Thursday while debating whether women who become pregnant from sexual assault deserve an exception from a strict anti-abortion measure….
Supreme Court to review Oklahoma lethal injection procedure
The case, which is likely to be heard this term, was brought by inmates who claim that the state protocol violates the Constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and…
Religious Freedom Advocates Offer To Take Lashes For Imprisoned Saudi Blogger
Seven religious freedom advocates have offered to personally receive 100 lashes each in the place of Raif Badawi, a liberal Saudi blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in…