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Published: 12/9/10

This Is the End for Jim Morrison's Nudity Case

By  Deborah Hastings - AOL News
This Is the End for Jim Morrison's Nudity Case

(Dec. 9) -- The story begins in 1969, on an exceptionally hot night in an overcrowded concert hall in Miami. An exceptionally drunk Jim Morrison, slurring and screaming, stops singing "Touch Me," and what happens next destroys the Doors' meteoric career. Forty years later, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has successfully obtained a pardon for the long-dead singer on public indecency charges. Florida's Clemency Board unanimously voted to grant the pardon today, according to The Associated Press. Crist had said Morrison most likely never dropped his pants and exposed himself to a packed, screaming ...

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Published: 12/8/10

Is This Man Tim Pawlenty's 'Willie Horton'?

By  Carla Baranauckas - Politics Daily
Is This Man Tim Pawlenty's 'Willie Horton'?

Not long ago, Gov. Tim Pawlenty told the Christian Broadcasting Network, one of his teenage daughters asked him, "Dad are you gonna run for president?" His answer: "I don't know, Honey. I'm not sure." While he's making up his mind though, the Republican Minnesota chief executive is showing all the usual signs of presidential aspirations, including spending lots of time and money in Iowa and New Hampshire. He is also coming under the kind of scrutiny that all candidates face. Just last week, one of his actions as chairman of Minnesota's Board of Pardons had City Pages, a Twin Cities weekly ...

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Published: 09/4/10

Death Row Reprieve: Does Ohio Also Owe Kevin Keith a New Trial?

By  Andrew Cohen - Politics Daily
Death Row Reprieve: Does Ohio Also Owe Kevin Keith a New Trial?

Convicted murderer Kevin Keith could look at the week's dramatic developments in his life in one of two ways. He could consider himself very lucky that Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland commuted his capital sentence to life in prison without parole. Or he could consider himself still accursed that he'll likely remain in prison anyway for the rest of his natural days despite his claim that he did not murder two adults and a four-year-old child -- family members of an alleged police drug informant -- in 1994. How do you see the glass, Mr. Keith, now that the very government that incarcerates you has ...

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Published: 08/17/10

On Death Row in Ohio: Is Kevin Keith an Innocent Man?

By  Andrew Cohen - Politics Daily
On Death Row in Ohio: Is Kevin Keith an Innocent Man?

When last we left the sorry state of capital punishment in Ohio, hapless prison officials were attempting to execute the same man twice after failing to find a usable vein the first time they put him onto the gurney. They did not succeed -- the death row inmate, Romell Broom, is still alive -- but the embarrassing episode did cause the Buckeye State finally to reform its dubious lethal-injection protocols. That's the good news. The bad news is that a new case, the case of Kevin Keith, shows once again how far Ohio is from affording capital suspects even the most basic constitutional ...

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