Mechanized Justice

Justice Through Apologies: Remorse, Reform, and Punishment 
by nick smith
 cambridge, 413 pages, $33 For decades, American Christians have worried about the dwindling room for religion and religiously inspired morals in public life. The church–state debates in which they engage often focus on . . . . Continue Reading »

Crime Rats

A tidbit from E.P. Evans’s Criminal Prosecution and the Capital Punishment of Animals(18-19).“It is said that Bartholomew Chassenee, a distinguished French jurist of the sixteenth century . . . made his reputation at the bar  as counsel for some rats, which had been put on . . . . Continue Reading »