Once again, death has come to Colorado in spectacular fashion. As unforgettable as our Rocky Mountains, this particularly grisly motif arrived in the guise of a red-haired joker wearing $20,000 worth of body armor and an apparent desire to annihilate the hopes and dreams and aspirations of a dozen innocent fellow humans. (Kind of similar [...]
It’s happened again. Another mass shooting in Colorado. The first, Columbine, was followed by more tough-on-crime rhetoric and talk about not blaming the guns because “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.“ That same logic is being applied to this horror. Yes, it makes sense. So next time we send troops to war, let’s arm [...]
by Alan Prendergast In January 2010, Scott Howard, a 39-year-old federal prisoner, made his way briskly into a hearing room in the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building in Washington, D.C. He was neatly dressed in blazer, slacks and tie, and quite nervous about what he was about to do. He was determined to not think [...]
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 When the U.S. Supreme Court ruling was issued declaring mandatory life without parole for juveniles unconstitutional, I was miles away from my computer and my mountain home. I had been evacuated due to Colorado’s Waldo Canyon fires. Ever one to seek meaning out of chaos, I wondered, Is that to save [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court last week ruled that mandatory juvenile life without parole sentences are unconstitutional. Justice Elena Kagan, who wrote the majority opinion, said: “We ‘hold that mandatory life without parole for those under the age of 18 at the time of their crimes violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.’” The ruling is a [...]