Recent content by Stephen Lea Sheppard

We already know for certain that some of the people being executed today are innocent, because the cascade of "We executed this guy last year, and it turns out we just found new evidence that proves it couldn't have been him" keeps popping up. Not very often. Just enough to show that the...

Actually, the reason why you don't want to give sex offenders the death penalty is because most sex offenders who are caught, tried, and convicted are so because of testimony from the victim, and the actual solve rate of murders is much lower than crime TV would have you believe. If sex offenses...

Yes. Those three books together have every Conan story Howard ever wrote, in the order he wrote them, fully restored to their original publication drafts (previous reprintings have been rife with editors mucking with his prose, changing names to turn different characters into recurrings...