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The border needs fixing, but not because migrants are dangerous The Boston Globe March 31, 2024
The Boston Tea Party was a crime The Boston Globe December 14, 2023
As capital punishment fades, progressives take aim at life without parole The Boston Globe August 6, 2023
Oakland's NAACP blames out-of-control crime on left-wing policies The Boston Globe August 2, 2023
Unabomber's death calls to mind a tale of two brothers The Boston Globe June 14, 2023
Rachael Rollins was a disgrace The Boston Globe May 21, 2023
Did the Varsity Blues prosecutions really belong in federal court? The Boston Globe May 17, 2023
Felons are locked up for a reason, and it isn't so they can vote The Boston Globe April 19, 2023
Prisoners who donate a lifesaving organ ought to be rewarded The Boston Globe February 9, 2023
Republicans' 'banana republic' charge is bananas The Boston Globe August 14, 2022
Alive and well and living on death row The Boston Globe July 24, 2022
Attacks on pregnancy centers, like attacks on abortion clinics, should be intolerable The Boston Globe July 17, 2022
Execute Tsarnaev The Boston Globe March 9, 2022
When racial hate turns out to be faked Arguable December 14, 2021
As murders increase, support for the death penalty will too The Boston Globe October 3, 2021
Will Bobby Kennedy's killer go free? Washington Examiner September 25, 2021
Sirhan should die behind bars The Boston Globe September 1, 2021
Democrats discover that 'defund the police' is political poison The Boston Globe July 1, 2021
Death is the right penalty for Tsarnaev The Boston Globe March 28, 2021
"Mostly Peaceful": from 2020's Words of the Year The Boston Globe December 28, 2020
Voting is a privilege that prisoners rightly forfeit The Boston Globe July 23, 2020
Statue-toppling, right and wrong The Boston Globe June 14, 2020
The week the looters came The Boston Globe June 7, 2020
Indecent cops, indecent rioters Arguable June 1, 2020
The pernicious Logan Act should have been scrapped long ago The Boston Globe May 13, 2020
Are hate crimes up or down? The government has no idea The Boston Globe November 17, 2019
'Kill yourself,' she texted, and he killed himself. Does that make her a killer? The Boston Globe November 3, 2019
No, expanded background checks wouldn't prevent mass shootings The Boston Globe August 7, 2019
When murders increase, so does support for the death penalty The Boston Globe July 31, 2019
Those imprisoned for breaking laws should have no say in making laws The Boston Globe April 17, 2019
Gavin Newsom's death-row betrayal The Boston Globe March 20, 2019
The US is not a house. It doesn't need a wall The Boston Globe January 6, 2019
A massacre in Pittsburgh and the 'hardening' of Jewish America The Boston Globe October 29, 2018
The death penalty, humane and painless The Boston Globe March 21, 2018
Trump is wrong on terror and the green-card lottery The Boston Globe November 5, 2017
On the death penalty, Francis is going where no pope has gone before The Boston Globe October 18, 2017
Automatic forgiveness makes the world more dangerous The Boston Globe April 26, 2017
Immigrant heroes save American lives The Boston Globe March 8, 2017
Racist opinions are hateful. That shouldn't make them crimes The Boston Globe January 11, 2017
Does the death penalty deter? Of course The Boston Globe August 28, 2016
If you don't rent to criminals, are you a racist? The Boston Globe April 10, 2016
A lesson for Trump in Bulger's rejected appeal The Boston Globe March 9, 2016
Guns and the 'No-Fly' grandstanders The Boston Globe December 9, 2015
Garrett Swasey's final sermon The Boston Globe December 6, 2015
Bulger wasn't hardwired to be a murderer. No one is The Boston Globe September 23, 2015
Life without parole is no substitute for death The Boston Globe July 16, 2015
A fitting sentence for the Boston Marathon terrorist The Boston Globe May 15, 2015
Death or life for Tsarnaev? The Boston Globe April 22, 2015
Back to firing squads? Thank death-penalty foes The Boston Globe March 18, 2015
Gun rights should cross state lines The Boston Globe January 21, 2015
When 'justice' trumps accuracy, journalism loses The Boston Globe December 14, 2014
Fossil-free isn't folly free The Boston Globe May 14, 2014
The prison door keeps revolving The Boston Globe May 4, 2014
Government is dangerous. Handle with care. The Boston Globe August 11, 2013
Political elite should shun Bill Bulger The Boston Globe June 23, 2013
Dzokhar Tsarnaev and the death penalty The Boston Globe May 8, 2013
After the 'toughest' gun law, gun crime rose The Boston Globe February 17, 2013
Bad guys' lawyers The Boston Globe January 13, 2013
Good laws will never abolish all evil The Boston Globe December 19, 2012
Life terms for teen killers: neither cruel nor unusual The Boston Globe July 15, 2012
A safer society with guns The Boston Globe March 21, 2012
On trial at Rutgers: hate crime or thought crime? The Boston Globe March 14, 2012
In Oregon, a profile in incoherence The Boston Globe November 30, 2011
Let convicts choose: Prison or the lash? The Boston Globe July 10, 2011
Abortion's awful euphemisms The Boston Globe January 26, 2011
The 'Islamophobia' myth The Boston Globe December 8, 2010
Is capital punishment racist? The Boston Globe December 5, 2010
Ultimate evil calls for ultimate punishment The Boston Globe September 29, 2010
Instruments of crime are instruments, not crimes The Boston Globe June 20, 2010
Huckabee's deadly gamble The Boston Globe December 9, 2009
With imprisonment up, crime is down The Boston Globe August 5, 2009
Getting Away with Murder in Mass. Solomonia.com July 19, 2009
Aren't all violent crimes 'hate' crimes? The Boston Globe May 17, 2009
'Honor' killing comes to the US The Boston Globe August 10, 2008
Immigrants in prison? Not likely The Boston Globe March 5, 2008
Life and death in New Jersey The Boston Globe December 19, 2007
Bloodshed in black America is self-inflicted The Boston Globe September 5, 2007
Do some victims deserve less justice? The Boston Globe May 16, 2007
A time for tears and silence, not politics The Boston Globe April 22, 2007
More relief than regret The Boston Globe January 3, 2007
Undeserved forgiveness The Boston Globe October 8, 2006
The 'throw-away-the-key' fallacy The Boston Globe February 8, 2006
The wrong way to restore the death penalty The Boston Globe May 15, 2005
A phony 'consensus' on youthful killers The Boston Globe March 6, 2005
Musings, random and otherwise The Boston Globe December 23, 2004
Old enough to kill. Old enough to die? The Boston Globe October 21, 2004
The cancer of anti-Semitism in Europe The Boston Globe March 14, 2004
When murderers die, innocents live The Boston Globe September 28, 2003
More prisoners, less crime The Boston Globe August 28, 2003
Out of a job he should never have had The Boston Globe August 10, 2003
Bonnie, get your gun The Boston Globe August 22, 2002
Do these cabbies look like bigots? The Boston Globe July 12, 2001
The accuracy of capital punishment The Boston Globe February 28, 2000
Where were the adults? The Boston Globe April 26, 1999
Murder over the high seas The Boston Globe February 25, 1999
Papal interference in Missouri The Boston Globe February 4, 1999
Inmates on death row are more likely to walk than die The Boston Globe November 30, 1998
The lessons of Laramie The Boston Globe October 15, 1998
Yandle belongs in prison for life The Boston Globe September 3, 1998
The unjust logic of sparing murderers The Boston Globe August 10, 1998
Kennedy's destructive hate crimes bill The Boston Globe July 20, 1998
What the media don't admit: Guns make us safer The Boston Globe June 18, 1998
The classroom culture that spawned Kip Kinkel The Boston Globe May 28, 1998
Latrena Pixley and the downward slide of American jurisprudence The Boston Globe January 9, 1998
'Their blood flowed red, too' The Boston Globe January 6, 1998
Pol Pot's clear conscience The Boston Globe November 4, 1997
In defense of 'an eye for an eye' The Boston Globe June 24, 1997
At UMass, student lawbreaking has grown routine The Boston Globe June 3, 1997
In D.C., a change of heart on the death penalty The Boston Globe May 20, 1997
Bring back flogging The Boston Globe February 20, 1997
Willful murderers deserve death, not compassion The Boston Globe December 12, 1996
A letter to Johnathan The Boston Globe October 3, 1996
A cardinal's compassion for a killer The Boston Globe September 24, 1996
The party of gun-haters The Boston Globe September 3, 1996
A killer lives; a child dies The Boston Globe January 12, 1996
The flames of hatred in the Age of Farrakhan The Boston Globe December 14, 1995
When murder makes page 1, is the blood any redder? The Boston Globe October 3, 1995
Crime is down. Why don't we don't feel safer? The Boston Globe August 17, 1995
Time has improved Yandle, but it hasn't lessened his crime The Boston Globe June 13, 1995
The chaos facing the White House The Boston Globe May 30, 1995
What does Harvard have against teen killers? The Boston Globe April 11, 1995
Seeking justice for crimes of the past The Boston Globe September 27, 1994
Drowning in crime The Boston Globe August 30, 1994
Crime bill hypocrites The Boston Globe August 19, 1994
A roll call for murderers The Boston Globe August 2, 1994
Without the death penalty, innocents will die The Boston Globe June 21, 1994

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