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Dear Bishop Stika: Pope St. Pius V, our father in God, the Pope of the Battle of Lepanto, would have deposed and laicized you, and turned you over to the secular authorities to be tried and executed for sodomy, you hideous, slack-jawed, mouth-breathing faggot. Quote me. Please. In one of his very first acts as pope, Pope St. Pius V in Cum Primum on April 1, ARSH 1566 ordered that sodomites be executed by the secular authorities. Two years later, he declared in a Constitution: “That horrible crime, on account of which corrupt and obscene cities were destroyed by fire...

"He has been gasping for more than an hour," lawyers said in an emergency appeal to halt the botched execution of Arizona inmate Joseph Rudolph Wood yesterday. "He is still alive." As the hour mark passed, Wood's lawyers filed an appeal to a district court and even called Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, the New York Times reports. Kennedy declined to halt the execution, while the district court didn't respond until after Wood had died, almost two hours into a process that usually takes around 10 minutes. Gov. Jan Brewer has ordered an investigation into the execution of the 55-year-old...

An Oklahoma inmate whose execution was halted tonight because the delivery of a new drug combination was botched died of a heart attack, the head of the state Department of Corrections said. The execution began at 6:23pm when officials began administering the first drug, and a doctor declared Clayton Lockett to be unconscious at 6:33pm. About three minutes later, though, Lockett began breathing heavily, writhing on the gurney, clenching his teeth, and straining to lift his head off the pillow. After about three minutes, a doctor lifted the sheet that was covering Lockett to examine the injection site "and the...

Fla. Attorney General Bondi asked for delay in Gore execution date because of fundraiser TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is delaying the execution date of a former escort service owner because of a campaign fundraiser. Gov. Rick Scott delayed the execution of convicted killer Marshall Lee Gore from Sept. 10 until Oct. 1 at the request of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. Scott said Monday that he did not know why Bondi asked for the delay. He says it was routine to accommodate requests from other officials. The Sept. 10 execution date conflicted with the date of a Bondi fundraiser....

Jack Abramoff's political confession, "Capitol Punishment," promises to provide a respite from daily reports of government corruption, civil liberties violations, abuses of power, constitution shredding, mad power grabs, cover-up, phoniness and lies emanating from the current White House. He sounds like a one-of-a-kind guy: "a power-lifting, football playing, Orthodox Jewish, right wing Republican opera buff. You know the type." It's good to know that his ordeal didn't rob him of his sense of humor. Abramoff was exhibit A-Z in the museum of corrupt Washington types: homo-lobbyist. What makes that laughable is the suggestion that any one person sits at the...

The Teheran regime has hanged 66 individuals since the end of 2010, according to France 24 International News. Among them was a 46-year-old Iranian-born, Dutch national Sahra Bahrami, who was hung on January 29 on drug-smuggling charges. Holland's Foreign Ministry said it was "shocked, shattered by this act by a barbaric regime," according to Agence France Presse. Bahrami's sister dismissed the Iranian charges, which she contended were fabricated. "She doesn't even smoke cigarettes, let alone possessing drugs. How could someone who participates in election gatherings and endangers her life, engage in such actions against her country?" she is quoted as...

SACRAMENTO - Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco called for overhauling the state's death-penalty system during a Capitol rally Wednesday for crime victims. Pacheco, the keynote speaker at the 20th annual Victims March on the Capitol, criticized the years-long delays between when a criminal is sentenced to death and when the execution takes place. Pacheco singled out the 1992 death sentence for Andrew Lamont Brown, of Riverside, for killing 17-year-old Christina Ann Ramirez, of Riverside, during a carjacking. Brown remains on death row. "How has this animal not received justice?" Pacheco said, choking up. "He has been sitting on death...

In 2007 there were 1,200 executions world wide, 552 of those were carried out in Muslim Countries in the Middle East. Being an executioner in those countries is a "honored position" Maybe that's why they take the time to educate their children. Just like many of us they like to take their kids to work: Once I took with me one of my children, who is not here right now. I had to chop off the hand of a thief, and I took him with me. I took Muhammad, who is younger than Faysal. After we returned, he went to...

Jim Robinson is the founder and operator of FreeRepublic.com. He posted this editorial on Terri Schiavo, Sunday April 3rd. I said it was wrong to kill her. That is my opinion. Nothing can change it. No list of "facts" will ever change it. And I put "facts" in quotes because most of the so-called "facts" posted here were in fact "opinion." Whether it was a poster's opinion, a reporter's opinion, her husband's opinion, a relative's opinion, a supporter's opinion, a detractor's opinion, a politician's opinion, a lawyer's opinion, a doctor's opinion, the president's opinion, the governor's opinion, or even...

'Hang him': Judge: Noose or needle for killer Sampson By J.M. Lawrence Friday, January 30, 2004 A federal judge yesterday ordered killer Gary Lee Sampson to die by lethal injection ``or hanging'' in New Hampshire where families of three men he murdered can more easily watch his execution for ``despicable, inexplicable and inexcusable crimes.'' ``If anyone deserves the death penalty, you do,'' U.S. District Court Judge Mark Wolf told Sampson, 44, proclaiming a New England death sentence as appropriate ``retribution'' for Sampson's six-day killing spree in 2001. Rejecting the government's plan to execute Sampson in Terre Haute, Ind., the judge...

PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's latest update on the death penalty shows a continued high level of public support for the death penalty for those convicted of murder. When given a choice between the death penalty and life imprisonment as a punishment for murder, a slim majority also continues to favor the death penalty. Despite controversy over the death penalty that led to moratoriums in Illinois and Maryland, a growing percentage of the public believes the death penalty is applied fairly in the United States, and by a two-to-one margin, Americans say the death penalty is not imposed enough rather than...

We own this blogsite so we can publish whatever we please. We don't have to answer to an Editorial Board or stockholders. We do invite the public to visit and read, and we'd like wide circulation and commensurate influence, but hell, we have no stars in our eyes. We can, if we want to, pivot yet another piece on Ann Coulter's fine column, Murdering the Bell Curve.Still, when I told my friend, Carol, I intended to follow up with another Conning Tower piece on IQ and PC this time including a consideration of race, she was concerned. I assured her...