Less than a week after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals employees in North Carolina faced charges of cruelty for performing anesthetized euthanasia on unwanted animals, then tossing them in dumpsters, the state’s council of commissioners had to vote on whether North Carolina’s method for disposing of unwanted citizens is properly antiseptic. While PETA’s [...]
printer-friendly html printer-friendly pdf Phillip Barron Originally published in the Radical Philosophy Review, Volume Three, Number One (2000) (pp. 89-96) Abstract: Although the demographics on male versus female death-row prisoners suggest that males are the criminal justice system’s primary targets, I argue that the system also discriminates against women. Utilizing contemporary feminist theories of gender, [...]
The Common Sense Foundation has a new public service announcement on the need for a moratorium on executions in North Carolina. At the heart of the increasingly popular moratorium effort is the fact that at least four innocent people have been sentenced to death in this state. A moratorium is simply a pause on executions, [...]
Wednesday, at his retrial, Alan Gell was found not guilty of the crime for which he’s spent almost 9 years on North Carolina’s death row. Anticipating the verdict, I wondered what it would be like to hear the sweet words of justice after having so many years of my life stolen. Mistaken identity and prosecutorial [...]