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The family is, right now, driving in our minivan from Omaha to the Lake of the Ozarks, down in Missouri.
It will take a few hours.
We will be hot and cranky.
There are videos of Clifford (the big red dog) and Curious George. I’m sure there will be at least one episode of the Teletubbies, and some Dora the Explorer thrown into the mix.
It will be a lot like Hell.
You, however, will not suffer for my absence, as I have written several stories in advance!
Have a wonderful and safe weekend, free of evil people.
Interesting mock-instructional video by a couple of art students.
Disrespectful of victims? Yes, possibly. But when you’re facing the despair that comes with the sheer numbers of these crimes, you can either get a grisly sense of humor about these types of things or you can curl up into a ball and hope it all goes away.
Beginning on July 1st of 2007, a new Iowa law will make it a felony to dismember or hide a body to conceal a crime.
The slaying of Greg May in 2001 was the real reason for this law.
After that killing, a woman named Julie Miller helped her boyfriend dismember the body of their roommate, Greg May. Together, they threw the body parts into the Mississippi River and buried the head in a bucket of quick-drying cement.
Those of us who are familiar with Iowa aren’t particularly surprised that this didn’t break any state laws. Nebraskans are sure, after all, that Iowans eat dead babies on a regular basis.
This is a preview of If You Were Planning On Chopping Somebody Up In Iowa, You’d Better Do It Quick.
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If this becomes a problem, ie: spamming comments for links, I’ll remove it.
A handful of studies done over the past several years say, “Yes!”
Naci Mocan, an economics professor at the University of Colorado at Denver, co-authored one of the original studies as well as another study that re-examined the data from the first one.
Both of his studies showed that for each execution there were five fewer homicides.
Commuting a death sentence? Five more homicides.
According to Professor Mocan:
“The results are robust, they don’t really go away. I oppose the death penalty. But my results show that the death penalty (deters) — what am I going to do, hide them?”
This is a preview of Does The Death Penalty Save Lives?.
