I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood' to be flogged publicly.

'Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president'

Harriet Miers isn't qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on The West Wing, let alone to be a real one.

Would that it were so! ... That the American military were targeting journalists.

Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime-for a second crime is every day com…

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended i…