http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/justice/ en-us Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:47:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074397/posts A northwest Charlotte homeowner shot and killed an intruder in his home Tuesday afternoon, police said. Officers said the man arrived at his Toddville Road home and saw a strange car in the driveway. He found the door kicked in and shot the burglar inside, police said. The suspected burglar died and the homeowner is currently being interviewed by police. wsoctv.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074397/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:47:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074387/posts KARACHI -Two unidentified robbers were caught, badly thrashed and then torched to death by angry residents late on Tuesday night in the low income area of Buffer Zone. According to eyewitnesses, two armed men on a motorbike mugged one Mohammed Riaz and were fleeing when they were caught by dozens of residents of the locality. First the enraged people beat up the two robbers severely and later set them on fire. A police party was rushed to the scene who shifted the two men to a nearby hospital where they were pronounced dead due to multiple injuries and burns to... Khaleej Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074387/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:29:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073915/posts Kellie Hoehn was finishing one last chore before heading to bed early this morning when two men in ski masks shattered the glass on the front door of her Blue Mound home and pointed a gun in her face. “It was the most horrific thing,” she said. Locations of home invasions in Fort Worth and Blue Mound Mrs. Hoehn said the intruders told her not to scream. But she called for her husband Keith and warned him that the men had a gun. She told her 12-year-old son to grab his 5-year-old sister and the two hid in a closet.... The Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073915/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 18:32:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070087/posts Developing story... Defend Our Marines http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070087/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:10:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067021/posts Governments tend toward tyranny. Governments are comprised of selfish humans with personal desires for money, job security, and increased authority over fellow citizens. A citizen working for a government has opportunities to rule over and oppress fellow citizens, they would never have outside their government position. Therefore, government becomes a magnet for selfish power-seeking individuals. By their sheer size and superior firepower, governments tend to overrun and ignore personal rights. The machine capriciously devours it's victims. The Declaration of Independence declares that governments exist to protect the rights of citizens. The Constitution for the United States of America further states... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067021/posts#comment Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:20:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061878/posts Joseph Edward Duncan III is a sadistic, detail-oriented rapist and killer who went on a GPS-guided quest to abduct and rape children before he settled on a Coeur d'Alene family, U.S. Attorney Tom Moss told a federal jury Wednesday. Duncan, who is representing himself at the sentencing hearing, told the jury that most of Moss' description of events was "fair and accurate." He also said he would testify "to clarify things." -- SNIP -- The six-woman, nine-man jury (12 jurors and three alternates) mostly kept their composure as Moss detailed the grisly crimes against Dylan and Shasta. Some jurors wrinkled... Idaho Statesman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061878/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:01:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060872/posts HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A twice-convicted killer with a history of violence that continued even after he was sent to death row was executed Tuesday for gunning down two video store workers during a robbery 14 years ago in Dallas. "...See y'all when you get there," Leon David Dorsey IV said in his final statement. "Do what you're going to do." Dorsey was the seventh prisoner executed this year in the nation's most active death penalty state and the first of two inmates scheduled to die this week. Two more are to die next week. Ft. Worth Star Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060872/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:27:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060508/posts (Dallas, TX) -- A Dallas killer, one of the most dangerous men on Death Row, will be executed tonight. Leon Dorsey freely admits that he murdered two Blockbuster employees in Dallas during a high-profile 1994 robbery. He shows no remorse over the brutal killings and refuses to apologize. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice keeps Dorsey on its highest lockdown level because of a history of violence and threats. In his eight years on Death Row, Dorsey has amassed nearly 100 infractions including an attack where he stabbed a guard 14 times with a hand-made shank. The guard was saved... WBAP Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060508/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:15:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059571/posts ..."We're not trying to make heroes out of these guys," says Aviva Futorian, an exhibit organizer. "We're trying to rehabilitate them. That's good for society and good for the victims." Janie Edwards has her own view of Charles McLaurin’s art. "He should draw a rope and hang himself in that cell," she says. McLaurin is a lifer at Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet. Edwards is the south suburban Richton Park woman whose 17-year-old son, Jarrell Edwards, was killed by McLaurin in 1992. A relative of the boy McLaurin killed says he believes art can be therapeutic for some criminals --... wbbm780.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059571/posts#comment Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:54:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058558/posts National security trumps an immigrant's right to a speedy naturalization process, a Manhattan federal judge ruled yesterday......a group of New Yorkers who hoped to vote in this fall's election sued to force approval of backlogged citizenship applications in time for Election Day. Judge Lawrence McKenna dismissed the lawsuit, filed by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund; the Judge said he couldn't authorize the FBI to hurry "name checks" - a comprehensive vetting process expanded after 9/11. NY POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058558/posts#comment Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:11:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058254/posts TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran's judiciary has decided to scrap the punishment of stoning convicts to death in draft legislation submitted to parliament for approval, the local press reported on Wednesday. Judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi was also quoted as saying that stoning sentences against several convicts had been suspended, with four commuted to either lashes of the whip or jail terms. "In the latest version of the Islamic penal codes bill, which has undergone several modifications, such punishments are not mentioned," Jamshidi said, the reformist Etemad newspaper reported, referring to both stoning and amputation. AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058254/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:52:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057947/posts Very rarely do you see conservatives rally around convicted criminals demanding they be set free. That’s part of what makes the case of Border Patrol agents Ingacio Ramos and José Compean so special. That, along with the fact that so many people who should be behind bars are free while the two agents are in prison for essentially doing their jobs. Ramos and Compean made the mistake of shooting a Mexican drug smuggler named Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in the butt as he was trying to get away. Good for them, you might say, but U.S. Attorney and Bush-buddy Johnny Sutton... humanevents.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057947/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:59:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057304/posts 2008-08-06 11:11:02 - BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Serbia's Justice Ministry says it has received no formal U.S. request to extradite or prosecute a Serb student wanted on assault charges in New York. U.S. police say 20-year-old Miladin Kovacevic severely beat fellow college student Bryan Steinhauer during a bar fight in May and then fled to Serbia in June to avoid prosecution. Washington reportedly has demanded that Serbia return Kovacevic by Aug. 1. But Serbian Justice Ministry says in a statement released Wednesday the United States has not made a formal request for Kovacevic's extradition to the U.S. or trial in... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057304/posts#comment Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:04:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056299/posts What happened to justice in America? It certainly wasn’t served on July 28 when the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the unjust convictions of Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. As it stands today, these two brave border protectors must now serve out their full 10-plus-year sentences for shooting and wounding a Mexican drug smuggler they encountered while he was carrying a million-dollar payload of narcotics along the Southern border in Texas. What started off as simple procedural mistakes by the agents has turned into an unimaginable travesty of justice unlike anything I’ve ever seen in... humanevents.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056299/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:15:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055054/posts SHENANDOAH, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- By the time help arrived, Luis Ramirez lay convulsing in the middle of the street, foam running from his mouth. Crystal Dillman displays the religious medal worn by her fiance, Luis Ramirez, who died from a beating. 1 of 3 Blows had struck the 25-year-old Mexican immigrant with such force that they left a clotted, bruised impression of Jesus Christ on the skin of his chest from the religious medal he wore. His attackers were white teenagers, including star students and football players, witnesses told police. After a night of drinking, the teens taunted the undocumented... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055054/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 20:22:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054332/posts SHENANDOAH, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- By the time help arrived, Luis Ramirez lay convulsing in the middle of the street, foam running from his mouth. Crystal Dillman displays the religious medal worn by her fiance, Luis Ramirez, who died from a beating. 1 of 3 Blows had struck the 25-year-old Mexican immigrant with such force that they left a clotted, bruised impression of Jesus Christ on the skin of his chest from the religious medal he wore. His attackers were white teenagers, including star students and football players, witnesses told police. After a night of drinking, the teens taunted the undocumented... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054332/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:59:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2053260/posts Guest Commentary by Laurie Roth This week I thought I would lose my mind when I heard of the horrifying decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals against Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. So many of us who had followed this case for the last few years were hoping that once all the evidence had finally been heard, unlike with the first trial, that justice would be done. Wrong!! Justice was not done!!! You may recall in the first trial that the illegal alien, drug thug Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, who brought 743 pounds of marijuana over our border was... RFFM.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2053260/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:22:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053219/posts Fourteen years and numerous judicial reviews have passed since José Medellin was sentenced to die after confessing to the brutal gang rape and murder of two teenage girls in Houston. JOSÉ MEDELLIN That's long enough, state officials say. It's time to carry out the sentence. But defense attorneys, and an unusual coalition of federal officials, including no less than the attorney general and secretary of state, say if his Aug. 5 execution is not stayed, so Mr. Medellin's case can be reviewed one more time at the behest of the International Court of Justice, Texas will be rushing to judgment... The Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053219/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:13:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052968/posts Where were the career people on whom we count to keep the department honest? The latest report concludes that the two most senior people responsible for protecting immigration judges from political influence had "sufficient evidence . . . to have realized that political or ideological affiliations played a role" and that they should have spoken up to others who could do something. The same criticism was leveled at those who ran the office overseeing the honors program and lateral hiring. Where were they? It is disappointing that they failed to act forcefully to protect the department they served. Attorney General... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052968/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:08:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052871/posts President Bush on Monday approved the execution of an Army private, administration officials said. It was the first time in over a half-century that a president has affirmed a death sentence for a member of the U.S. military. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052871/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:44:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052536/posts Former Justice Department counselor Monica M. Goodling and former chief of staff D. Kyle Sampson routinely broke the law by conducting political litmus tests on candidates for jobs as immigration judges and line prosecutors, according to an inspector general's report released today. Goodling passed over hundreds of qualified applicants and squashed the promotions of others after deeming candidates insufficiently loyal to the Republican party, said investigators, who interviewed 85 people and received information from 300 other job seekers at Justice. Sampson developed a system to screen immigration judge candidates based on improper political considerations and routinely took recommendations from the... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052536/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:47:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2052111/posts Mississippi death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop’s final words before being executed included an endorsement of presidential contender Senator Obama. “Senator Obama offers hope for people like me,” Bishop asserted. “I have feelings, dreams, and aspirations. I don’t want to die.” Bishop acknowledged that the election of Obama would come too late to save him, but still urged voters “to consider what kind of a world they want for their children. Do we really want a justice system focused on ‘an-eye-for-an-eye?’ Or do we want to ‘forgive-and-forget?’ Think about that when you cast your ballots next November.” Senator Obama averred... AZCONSERVATIVE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2052111/posts#comment Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:35:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050225/posts Investigators are hoping you might be able to point them in the right direction as they search for who is responsible for a shooting that left the Houston Police Department's first Hispanic female officer wounded. 78-year-old Velia Ortega was visiting family members at the Plum Creek Apartments at 6969 South Loop East Monday afternoon, when she was wounded by the gunfire. Investigators say they want to question 17-year-old Bruno Aviles and 20-year-old Andrew Garcia in connection with the shooting. Authorities believe the pair may have been involved in a dispute over a vehicle with members of Ortega's family. News Radio 740 (KTRH) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050225/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:35:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050173/posts At least 80 people were injured during a bullfight in Colombia when stands in an overcrowded stadium collapsed underneath the crowd. Some 500 spectators screamed in panic and scrambled for safety as, following the collapse, the bull charged towards crowds at the stadium in Planadas, in the south of the country. Two men dressed as clowns tried to distract the bull and tempt it away from the mass of people before others joined them in trying to pin it down. The dramatic events at the annual fiesta were caught live on television and an investigation into how it happened has... TimesOnLine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050173/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:08:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049555/posts The government watchdog group known as Judicial Watch recently filed a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department, for that agency’s failure to turn over certain documents related to the prosecution of Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean… The suit comes after the government refused to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request for documents which detailed the agreement made between the governments of Mexico and the United States, which allowed drug smuggler Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila to return to this country to actually testify against Ramos and Compean. The FOIA request was filed by Judicial Watch on April 17, 2008. The... Capitol Hill Coffee House http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049555/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:27:21 GMT