Adam Lanza
Despite our best efforts, there will never be a 100% foolproof way of preventing school shootings and other mass murders. The only conceivable way would be a total ban on firearms, which is not going to happen. And even that would only cut down on the body count since numerous other weapons are still available. But that doesn’t mean we should just throw up our hands and do nothing.
Edwin Ernesto Rivera Gracias
We have been writing a lot lately about what’s wrong in law enforcement. But for those of us who study criminal justice, here’s a genuine feel-good story.
Raffaele Sollecito
Amanda Knox’s ordeal with the miscarriage of Italian justice has been horrible for her and her family and disgusting to all of us who value truth. The high Court of Cassation’s unbelievable ruling in ordering a new trial in the murder of Meredith Kercher has compounded the tragedy. But as horrible as it is for Amanda, at least she is an American citizen, back home on American soil, and protected by American laws. Not so for her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who is an Italian citizen and resident with no refuge from this travesty. Our empathy goes out to him. He’s already suffered more than enough for a crime of which he is completely and demonstrably innocent.
Jared Lee Loughner
After the fact, particularly when the fact is a mass shooting, it’s easy to say what should have been done. But as we have found over and over in our research, there are almost always indicators before the fact, if only they are recognized. And documents released yesterday in the case of Jared Lee Loughner, who killed six people – including nine-year-old Christina-Taylor Green – and wounded 11 others – including Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords – outside a Tucson supermarket in 2011, prove there were plenty of indicators.
Amanda Knox & Raffaele Sollecito in Court
By Krista Errickson
September 28, 2011
groundreport.com
This article was originally supposed to be published for Il Messaggero. It was given to me as an assignment, after the editor and legal expert of the newspaper saw the Maxim interview with famed FBI profiler, John Douglas, in the January 2011 issue.
When the article was turned in, albeit shortened, my editor told me – “We can’t print this article. It’s too dangerous to print in Italy”.
So, for your reading pleasure, the article too dangerous for Italy.
