Capital punishment is incompatible with the Christian faith for a number of biblical and theological reasons.
Capital punishment is incompatible with the Christian faith for a number of biblical and theological reasons.
The media has spent the past three years making Casey Anthony into a media star. Without that, no one would even know who she is.
The high cost of paying for interviews has nothing to do with the amount of the check. One can only hope that CBS and NBC follow ABC News as they begin to show the world you can put the toothpaste back in the tube.
The behavior we so deplore in others is often just a reflection of what we've allowed in ourselves. Maybe if we want to stop being lied to, we need to first stop lying to ourselves.
Let's talk about perjury -- a person taking an oath to tell the truth and then lying through their teeth. Perjury is illegal and one can be both fined...
A funny thing happened to me as I surveyed all the tragedies that have filled our newspapers over the past few weeks. I discovered that I was slowly becoming inured to the murder of children and the loss of human life.
Casey Anthony is hardly living the "beautiful life." She can't go home. She can't go out in the open. She hides from public view in a sort of inverted witness protection program brought on by at least one emailed death threat and the perception of a public fatwa.
Two of the biggest news stories this month have been the trials of Casey Anthony and Roger Clemens. What do "the most hated woman in America" and the beloved sports icon have in common? Roger Clemens and Casey Anthony are traveling on parallel pathways.
It's worth noting that the media organization at the center of the phone hacking scandal unfolding in the UK isn't some new media upstart or unsupervised blogger of the sort the traditional media are always wringing their hands over.
The world will likely pay no attention to a story buried in the New York Times in which software designer John Bradley, who was a key prosecution witness at the Casey Anthony trial, reported that his trial testimony was seriously mistaken.
What is troubling is the public's fascination with the Casey Anthony case, the need to make her a villain, and how the media have helped feed the mob mentality.
We have ALL failed the children in our world. There is nothing worse in a community than the unexpected and shocking loss of a young child. A chil...
We started this week with two major scandals rocking either side of the Atlantic
Although many, if not most disagree with the verdict (myself included), neither the jury nor the court can be faulted. The jury followed the law as given, and the judge instructed the jury as required.
She was the Casey Anthony of her time, a mother excoriated for her randy behavior, her name and story splashed across the front pages of the NYC tabloids.
Perplexing verdicts, such as from the Casey Anthony case, are a frequent occurrence for Americans, Angelenos included. We accept that they are just part of our judicial system and hope that one day justice will be served.
From covering the Casey Anthony trial, I've found that a basic reason why we think the way we do about lawyers is that they often destroy innocent people in the name of defending their clients.
If we can be thankful for anything to do with Caylee Anthony's murder, at least she is now in a place where nobody can ever harm her again. However, there are children who at this very instant, desperately need our country's attention and swift action.
This case, and the spectacle trials before it, are the sorts of stories many are too sheepish to admit they are closely following, much less actively covering. HLN saw huge ratings increases, but they won't be seeing any industry accolades for that coverage.
According to Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the Casey Anthony verdict is precisely why the U.S. should no longer be allowed to bring suspected terrorists to trial in its civilian federal courts: because juries cannot be trusted to convict in all cases.
As I saw outrage ripple through the media and the public, I realized that we were witnessing a textbook example of the two different kinds of morality.