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-----Original Message----- From: Abolish - The Mailing List For People Working to Abolish the Death Penalty [mailto:abol...@maelstrom.stjohns.edu] On Behalf Of Boyle, Francis Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:46 PM To: abol...@maelstrom.stjohns.edu Subject: News: Harvard's NeoNazi Law School Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fbo...@law.uiuc.edu (personal comments only) -----Original Message----- From: Boyle, Francis Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:45 PM To: 'AALS Section on Minority Grps. mailing list' ('AALS Section on Minority Grps. mailing list') Subject: Harvard's NeoNazi Law School "In an interview, Vagts said the Fourth Geneva Convention was written with Nazi deportation practices in mind and was meant to prevent the kind of transfers that Goldsmith's memo authorized." Versus "Goldsmith, author of noted books and articles on international law, has moved into his office at Harvard and is scheduled to begin teaching in January. Kagan said Tuesday that ''I'm as proud of this appointment as I could be." Goldsmith's ''work was lauded by a great many people, and we determined that he was an absolutely superb teacher and scholar," she said. ''He puts issues on the table that everyone focuses on and debates, and he's done that in a very short career. He's a very agenda-setting scholar, and that's exactly the kind of exciting scholarship that we want to have here." HLS Dean Kagan also stated that the future of International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School would be in "good hands" with her war criminal Goldsmith. The Nazis had their law professors and deans too. The Harvard Law School Faculty and Dean are not fit to educate students. fab Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (voice) 217-244-1478 (fax) fbo...@law.uiuc.edu (personal comments only) -----Original Message----- From: fbo...@law.uiuc.edu [mailto:fbo...@law.uiuc.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 11:08 AM To: fbo...@law.uiuc.edu Subject: Harvard hire's detainee memo stirs debate ____________________________________________________________ The following appeared on Boston.com: Headline: Harvard hire's detainee memo stirs debate Date: December 9, 2004 "A new Harvard Law School professor who wrote a controversial memo for the Bush administration on the handling of prisoners in Iraq has triggered angry debate among his colleagues, some of whom charge that the school faculty did not check his record thoroughly enough before hiring him last spring." ____________________________________________________________ To see this recommendation, click on the link below or cut and paste it into a Web browser: http://www.boston.com:80/news/local/articles/2004/12/09/harvard_hires_detain ee_memo_stirs_debate ____________________________________________________________ This message was sent by fbo...@law.uiuc.edu [mailto:fbo...@law.uiuc.edu] through Boston.com's email recommendation service. If you have questions or comments about this free service, please email us at feedb...@boston.com. ************************************************************** THE ABOLISH LIST This list serves solely as a forum for the exchange of ideas and information by people who support alternatives to the death penalty and the immediate abolition of Capital Punishment. Abolist List FAQ: http://capitaldefenseweekly.com/abolishfaq.htm Archives: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/abolish.html ************************************************************** From rhalp...@mail.smu.edu Thu Dec 9 16:50:20 2004 From: rhalp...@mail.smu.edu (Rick Halperin) Date: Tue Aug 16 12:15:03 2005 Subject: [Deathpenalty]death penalty news----TEXAS, ARK., OKLA. Message-ID: <pine.wnt.4.44.0412091650130.3276-100...@its08705.smu.edu> Dec. 9 TEXAS: 'Nation must confront moral implications of the death penalty' Gov. Rick Perry made the appropriate decision to stay the execution of Frances Newton on Dec 1. From Nov. 30-Dec. 3 there were 4 consecutive executions scheduled in four different states. Each inmate was granted a stay. December 2004 may go down in history as the 1st month with no U.S. executions since July 1994. We who live in Texas, which I call death penalty ground zero, must struggle with this issue and all the implications bound up in the question of taking a life. The challenge of a noble nation is to cultivate a spiritual and moral maturity that calls on the best our nation has to offer. This would include the response of Mamie Till Mobley to her sons brutal lynching in 1955 Mississippi. Emmett Till committed the worst crime imaginable for a black man in the south. He looked the wrong way at white woman. At Emmetts funeral in Chicago, she proclaimed to the world that she did not have a minute to waste on hate, but would pursue justice for the rest of her life. That attempt to keep track of the humanity of those who would maim, butcher, murder, degrade and dehumanize you, is fullest embodiment of Christ a person is capable of achieving. Mamie Mobley went on in her life to condemn the death penalty, which she characterized as a "legal lynching." If there was anyone who knew about that, it was Emmett Tills mother. T J Geiger II (source: Letter to the Editor, Beaumont Enterprise) ARKANSAS: Court Leaves Newman Stay of Execution in Place In Little Rock, the state Supreme Court Thursday denied condemned killer Rickey Dale Newman's personal plea to dissolve a stay of execution. Without comment, the high court left in place the stay it issued 4 days before he was to be put to death September 28th. In conflicting motions last month, Newman asked to be put to death and insisted he wanted to prove he is innocent of murder. The high court has not set a hearing date in the case. The 47-year-old Newman was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in the February 2001 stabbing death of Marie Cholette. The victim was a homeless woman whose body was found under a makeshift tent at a place where transients were camped in a wooded area of Crawford County. (source: Associated Press) OKLAHOMA: Man Formally Sentenced To Die For Daughter's Killing In Claremore, a man convicted of killing his 9-month-old daughter 2 years ago, will pay the ultimate price for her death. 40-year-old Benjamin Robert Cole was formally sentenced yesterday to death for the 1st-degree murder of Brianna Cole. Jurors took only 10 minutes to convict Cole in October. It took them less time to sentence him to death. Brianna died after she was abused by her father on December 20, 2002. Prosecutors said Cole was playing video games when Brianna's crying interrupted his game. Cole paused the game and went into the girl's room, where he grabbed her by the feet and pulled them toward her head, fracturing her spine. The injury caused a tear in her aorta and she bled to death. Cole had previously been convicted of child abuse in California. A preliminary execution date of February 21st has been set, but will likely be extended because of appeals. (source: KTUL News)
