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The DomPost editorial ‘Heart of the Mater’ draws on reports we’ve seen for years. Wellington heart patients are only half as likely to get timely surgery as patients elsewhere in New Zealand and our country is already behind first world norms. These reports should have made Labour and Annette King unelectable in Wellington.

I often write about the female sentencing discount, but here's one terrible aberration--a 40-year-old woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison--yes, you read right, 30 years--for having sex with a 16-year-old boy. The woman, Denise Harvey (pictured), has been the victim of an outrageous injustice.

Lawyers for a death-row inmate told the Utah Supreme Court yesterday that a prosecutor's attempt to obtain sanctions against them had put them at odds with the interests of their client. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Brunker is asking the court to sanction the lawyers for raising 43 issues that

Jack Abramoff, a disgraced lobbyist who was at one time one of the powerhouse figures on Capitol Hill, was sentenced to four years in prison today by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle "ordered Abramoff to serve an additional 48 months on top…

Lawyer Stephen Bright, president of the Southern Center for Human Rights, had told officials he wanted to help an ex-con get his life on track when he hired Shareef Cousin as a law clerk. But Cousin, a former death-row inmate, didn’t return the favor. Atlanta prosecutors say…

A new judge has scheduled a hearing for Monday to consider a Texas death-row inmate’s request for more information about an alleged affair between the judge and prosecutor in his case. Lawyers for Charles Dean Hood want to compel testimony about the allegations from the former judge, Verla Sue

Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim was found brutally murdered in her luxury Dubai apartment at the end of July and now the sad story takes a surprising twist. Police have charged Egyptian billionaire businessman Hisham Talaat Mustafa with paying $2 million to have his former lover killed.  Police

Holding murderers accountable: The case against Bush, Cheney et al. By William John Cox | Online Journal Although Americans have access to the greatest selection of information sources in the world, including books, newspapers, magazines, radio, television, cable, and the Internet, the frequency

People who live in areas that fell under the Roman Empire may be more susceptible to HIV. Slate offers a pretty useful Sarah Palin FAQ. Since taking office in 1997, Britain’s Labor Party has created 3,600 new criminal offenses. Puppycide, though this time with a bit of a novel twist. Good for Rep.

To wrap up the week, let’s stay down in the Lone Star state and get you up to speed on one of the odder death-penalty cases we’ve ever read about. It’s almost too nutty to be true: Lawyers for Charles Dean Hood (pictured), a convicted murderer set to die Wednesday, want retired state District Judge