All Posts Tagged With: "murder"
The Shame of Medicine: Acquittal by Psychiatry
When a pathologist gives expert testimony in a murder case, he may be able to say why the victim died. The pathologist-physician would not be expected to express an opinion about the defendant’s guilt or innocence; were he to express an opinion about it, it would not be attributed to his medical expertise. When a [...]
19Apr2010 | Thomas Szasz | 2 comments | ContinuedBanning Handguns Would Save Lives?
A Los Angeles Times opinion piece by Jennifer Price last February, “Gun Lobby’s Perfect Aim,” asks: why not ban handguns? She was writing in anger and sorrow over the murder of her brother David and his wife, by the wife’s mother. Emotion is a poor basis for public policy, and the essay demonstrates a poor [...]
1Jun2003 | Clayton E. Cramer | 8 comments | ContinuedNo Responsibility, No Freedom
Andrea Yates was not the only person whose free will was on trial last winter. Thus the Yates murder case underscores the affront represented by the psychiatric (and any other reductionist-positivist) worldview. She drowned her five young children in a bathtub last year and pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. (The jury nevertheless convicted [...]
1Jun2002 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedThey’re Just Dying to Be Rescued
Karen Selick is an attorney and a columnist for Canadian Lawyer. Copyright 2000. Belleville, Ontario, Canada—Why don’t abused women want to defend themselves? Three times within the past year, and many times previously, I have been consulted in matrimonial cases by women who have told credible and terrifying stories of violence, stalking, and death threats [...]
1Dec2000 | Karen Selick | 0 comments | ContinuedModern Times
Mr. Carolan is Executive Editor of National Review. “By the 1980s, state action had been responsible for the violent or unnatural deaths of over 100 million people, more perhaps than it had hitherto succeeded in destroying during the whole of human history up to 1900.” This one statement has remained with me, and has influenced [...]
1May1996 | Matthew Carolan | 0 comments | Continued-
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