December 23, 2004

Political issues

More on crime and (lenient) punishment

by Mrs Tilton

If you are interested in the issues raised by the case of Wolfgang Daschner (discussed in two earlier posts), you might wish to acquaint yourself with the similar case of Alexander Holmes.
I mentioned this case in comments to the earlier of those two posts. I also mentioned that you really ought to read it. Happily, [...]

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December 20, 2004

Germany

Torture does not pay

by Mrs Tilton

As you consider the ongoing saga of US treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and elsewhere, spare a thought for Wolfgang Daschner. As I wrote in an earlier post, Daschner, Frankfurt’s former deputy police commissioner, faced trial for threatening one Magnus G?fgen with torture. G?fgen had kidnapped young Jakob von Metzler, and the police [...]

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