“Seven of nine witnesses against Mr. Davis recanted after trial. Six said the police threatened them if they did not identify Mr. Davis. The man who first told the police that Mr. Davis was the shooter later confessed to the crime. There are other reasons to doubt Mr. Davis’s guilt: There was no physical evidence [...]

In response to the recent calls for the death penalty to be reintroduced I thought I would do a bit of digging into whether such a punishment would be an effective deterrent for violent crime. I believe a effective punitive system should be primarily about reducing crime. Any changes to that system should be backed [...]

By Richard Littledick Last Tuesday night, two teetotal nuns were murdered by a gang of six masked men on the Caribbean island of St Lucia. The women — aged 24 and 31 — were overpowered and subjected to a horrifying and prolonged assault. Their nightmare ordeal took place on a remote stretch of beach in [...]