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Many people are familiar with Dante's famous "9 Circles of Hell," where different categories of pitiful souls spend eternity in horrific torment for their sins.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2024 @ 8:04 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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A teenager who allegedly planned a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Ohio was ordered by a judge to write a book report as part of his punishment.
Published: Thursday, January 25th, 2024 @ 12:26 am
By: Daily Wire
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A federal appeals court ruled against Mississippi’s permanent voting ban for certain felons, going against Supreme Court precedent in doing so.
Published: Sunday, September 17th, 2023 @ 6:46 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Republican lawmakers slammed the prosecution of a Finnish politician who is facing punishment for expressing her Christian views on marriage and sexuality, saying that the prosecution was indicative of an “open war on Christianity.”
Published: Wednesday, August 30th, 2023 @ 12:20 pm
By: Daily Wire
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X owner Elon Musk said on Saturday night that his company would go to bat for people who are punished by their employers for things they do on his social media platform.
Published: Monday, August 28th, 2023 @ 8:46 am
By: Daily Wire
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Three North American Christian pastors who endured legal punishment from state and federal governments for defying authoritarian COVID orders to keep their churches open amid the pandemic are featured in a new documentary set to hit select theaters nationwide on Friday.
Published: Monday, August 14th, 2023 @ 7:49 am
By: Daily Wire
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According to sources, California Governor Gavin Newsom is condemning the recent trend of charter flights full of illegal migrants arriving in his state as "cruel and unusual punishment."
Published: Sunday, July 9th, 2023 @ 1:25 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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A teen girl and her father, who were punished by Vermont school officials for “misgendering” a biological boy in the girl’s locker room, recently scored a victory in court.
Published: Saturday, June 17th, 2023 @ 11:11 am
By: Daily Wire
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Following his indictment on Thursday, former President Donald Trump is likely to stand before a familiar face in the trial related to his alleged hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
Published: Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 @ 8:15 am
By: Daily Wire
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As a part of Major League Baseball's new push to both speed up the pace of games and make them more exciting for spectators, it was announced that pitchers who violate the new pitch clock will then be dropped into a pit of hungry alligators as punishment.
Published: Thursday, April 13th, 2023 @ 11:36 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced legislation this week that will dramatically increase the punishments faced by child rapists and drug criminals.
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 5:36 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Manhattan district attorney is reopening an investigation into former President Trump’s hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, and you may be thinking, “When will they ever learn?”
Published: Saturday, December 17th, 2022 @ 8:22 am
By: Daily Wire
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A judge said she sentenced two Belgian climate change activists who glued themselves to a well-known painting in the Netherlands to a lighter sentence than the public prosecutor requested because she did not want to discourage others from demonstrating by imposing a harsher punishment
Published: Saturday, November 12th, 2022 @ 1:08 am
By: Daily Wire
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“Capitol Punishment” director Chris Burgard described the chilling visit he got from the FBI after making his movie about January 6 and said “if this can happen to me, it can happen to anybody.”
Published: Sunday, October 30th, 2022 @ 9:14 am
By: Daily Wire
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The man who made headlines earlier this week for brandishing an axe at a Lower East Side McDonald’s is speaking out, claiming he’s “not unhinged” and insisting 18 hours in jail was ample punishment for his crime.
Published: Friday, October 14th, 2022 @ 12:55 pm
By: Daily Wire
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On Monday morning in Greensboro, U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles is scheduled to hear initial arguments in N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein’s effort to have a 91-year-old state law declared unconstitutional.
Published: Wednesday, July 27th, 2022 @ 3:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein wants a federal court to declare a 1931 state law unconstitutional.
Published: Monday, July 25th, 2022 @ 7:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Actress and abortion advocate Alyssa Milano revealed last week that she struggled with feelings of guilt after having two abortions in her twenties, believing two miscarriages were a result of her abortions and later fearing that her children might be hurt for “karmic” reasons.
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2022 @ 10:19 am
By: Daily Wire
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On Friday, following co-host Whoopi Goldberg’s incendiary comments about the Holocaust earlier in the week, “The View” co-host Sara Haines ripped people who felt that Goldberg’s two-week suspension from the show was insufficient punishment
Published: Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 @ 11:36 am
By: Daily Wire
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The board, though, also noted that the initial decision to ban Trump without an intermediate warning or punishment was “not appropriate” and that the ban should not be indefinite.
Published: Monday, May 10th, 2021 @ 10:57 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Joy Pullmann of the Federalist highlights a mystifying decision from a top federal health agency.
Published: Tuesday, May 4th, 2021 @ 3:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This ends a 17-year hiatus on federal capital punishment.
Published: Sunday, June 21st, 2020 @ 7:51 am
By: LifeZette
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As reported by ESPN, Chinese state television did not air any of the NBA’s opening games as part of its continued punishment of the league after Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey posted a pro-democracy tweet on October 4 simply stating, “Fight For Freedom, Stand For Hong Kong.”
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2019 @ 1:01 pm
By: Daily Wire
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In a year when our state is stashing more than $700 million into surplus funds, the recent state budget appears to target the Department of Health and Human Services for punishment.
Published: Friday, July 12th, 2019 @ 11:24 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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If you are convicted of a crime, the government can punish you. If you are arrested but never convicted, the government can’t punish you.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2019 @ 2:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) introduced the Thin Blue Line Act to ensure that criminals face the strongest possible punishment in federal cases when they kill or attempt to kill local law enforcement officers.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2019 @ 11:44 am
By: Thom Tillis
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The top official at the State Board of Elections wants tougher punishment for election crimes, suggesting special prosecutors should be appointed if district attorneys or federal authorities refuse to investigate wrongdoing.
Published: Saturday, March 23rd, 2019 @ 1:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Panelists at Campbell Law School offered a different path to resolving conflicts — in the criminal justice system and in disciplinary situations in K-12 schools.
Published: Monday, December 3rd, 2018 @ 12:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The recent killings of four workers at an eastern N.C. prison have prompted the legislature's top two officers to call for the return of capital punishment in North Carolina
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 1:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sex trafficking rings often find cover in parlors specializing in massage therapy, which are unregulated in North Carolina, National Human Trafficking Hotline data shows
Published: Monday, July 3rd, 2017 @ 6:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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American Anthropological Association (AAA) passed a resolution calling for the association to boycott Israeli academic institutions as punishment for the Israeli state’s Palestinian policy.
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016 @ 12:08 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Students could face punishment, including the possibility of expulsion, for engaging in conscious acts stifling the First Amendment rights of others, and the UNC system would be required to implement free speech rules, under a plan Lt. Gov. Dan Forest hopes to turn into law.
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2016 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Next week, the NC State Board of Education will discuss and likely approve the draft Consolidated Data Report for the 2014-15 school year. The report includes data on school crime and violence, suspensions, expulsions, corporal punishment, reassignments for disciplinary reasons, alternative...
Published: Thursday, April 14th, 2016 @ 4:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you have to spend time in the doghouse, you might at least make it a more bearable experience.
Published: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015 @ 10:21 am
By: Bobby Tony
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The philosophy department at the University of Colorado at Boulder is in hot water. CU-Boulder's administration replaced the department chair, suspended graduate admissions for a year, and sent everyone to sensitivity training. What caused such draconian punishment?
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 5:32 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Former Mecklenburg District Judge Bill Belk, 64, who in 2010 received a lifetime ban from serving as a judge by the N.C. Supreme Court, may face additional disciplinary action - including the loss of his law license - pending the outcome of an Aug. 23 disciplinary hearing stemming from...
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 @ 3:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sarah Palin re-invigorated the idea that a new political party could solve some of the problems with the two identical twin parties we have now.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2013 @ 2:39 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Capital punishment - or the death penalty - originates from the Latin word capitalis, which literally translates to "regarding the head," referencing how capital crimes were originally punished by the severing of the head.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2013 @ 9:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The death penalty is always a hot topic in any discussion, but is HB 722 another back-door attempt to do away with the death penalty without addressing the issue itself?
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 @ 8:28 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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