169 days ago by Mannie

The summer heat and lack of air conditioning have driven me to the edge of heat madness. My wife threatened to vomit up heat yesterday, the result of overindulgence, I think. It’s driven me to mid-summer ennui. An apathetic solstice. Calgon, take me away! The world is on fire at turns in Britain and ...

195 days ago by jr

Filed under: news Tagged: cory maye, death penalty, lucy kafanov, politics, video, war on drugs

201 days ago by Tim Lynch

Cory Maye was in his home one evening minding his own business when his front door came crashing down. Frightened that criminals were going to harm him and his child, Maye quickly retrieved a gun. When his bedroom door came crashing down next, Maye fired. When the lights came on, it turned out that ...

225 days ago by Ed Peterson

07/1/11 10:42 AM ET After 10 years of incarceration, and seven years after a jury sentenced him to die, 30-year-old Cory Maye will soon be going home. Mississippi Circuit Court Judge Prentiss Harrell signed a plea agreement Friday morning in which Maye pled guilty to manslaughter for the 2001 death ...

225 days ago by Gene Healy

By Gene Healy …that’s what former Cato policy analyst, Reason senior editor and now Huffington Post reporter Radley Balko reports: I’m in Monticello, Mississippi, this morning, where Circuit Court Judge Prentiss Harrell has just signed a plea agreement between Cory Maye and the state. Maye has plead ...

225 days ago by Sheldon Richman

This just in from Radley Balko on Facebook regarding Cory Maye: Wonderful news from Mississippi: Cory Maye was offered, and accepted, a manslaughter plea this morning. He was sentenced to time served. He'll be free and home with his family in a matter of days. More details to come.Balko has details ...