Tag Archives: Crime and punishment

Schizophrenia in the Court

November 12, 2009 – 5:29 pm

Donald Giles, a 41-year-old Louisville man with an IQ of 61, will stand trial for the 2003 slaying and robbery of Charles Goodlett, a Fairdale resident, and could — if the jury accepts the judge’s outlying interpretation of a Kentucky law that prohibits the execution of felons with an IQ below 70 — face the [...]

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Abramson Presser Attempts Spin, Misses Mark

October 27, 2009 – 5:51 pm

Mayor Jerry Abramson held a press conference earlier this afternoon to make official the resignation of now-ex-Louisville Metro Animal Services director Gilles Meloche, offering the embattled doctor’s head on a silver platter to attendant news media and essentially telling them “That’s it, that’s all there is for dinner,” and pledging full support behind the services’ [...]

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Storm Clouds Brewing at Animal Services

October 23, 2009 – 9:54 pm

Last Wednesday, during what should have been a routine Government Accountability and Oversight Committee hearing at City Hall, the latest chapter in the convoluted saga(s) emanating from Louisville Metro Animal Services unfolded in such spectacular fashion that the sound of collective-eyebrow raising could be heard from blocks away. When it was over, television crews were still [...]

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Jazzercise, Sexual Angst & Postal Rage

August 7, 2009 – 2:36 pm

I don’t normally take interest in exploitative, Nancy Grace-ish death operas, but The Exiled’s Chief Marxist, Mark Ames, offers an excellent analysis of Tuesday’s jazzercize spree-killing/suicide in Pittsburgh.
[Shooter George] Sodini’s pain isn’t limited to his unfluffed genitalia. He understood that his sexual failure and anomie were part of a larger injustice and rigidity built into [...]

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