The capital crimes unit at the Justice Department—the section that deals with death penalty cases—is made up of less than a dozen lawyers, making it one of the smaller offices working under the attorney general. This, we believe, is how it should be. The death penalty is a barbaric and has, thankfully, fallen out of fashion. We are a long way from when Ed Koch could run for mayor of New York City on his support for judicial murder. But its size doesn’t make it immune from the problems afflicting other parts of the government; in this case a department head, Kevin Carwile, accused to harassment and bias against women (Carwile is accused of groping an assistant in full few of other Judtice Department employees), and most concerning, accepting sloppy work in cases where a defendant’s life is in the balance. Six employees have transferred out of the unit, or left the Justice Department completely since Carwile was appointed in 2010. The New York Times has the full story.
WBC Heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder doesn’t need a capital verdict from a jury. He’s ready to kill someone anytime he steps into the ring. “I want a body on my record, I want one,” he announced on the Breakfast Club, on Power 105.1 in New York. Wilder, nicknamed the “Bronze Bomber,” has compiled an undefeated record over forty fights. “I always tell people, when I’m in the ring, like I am the Bronze Bomber. With him, it’s so crazy, I don’t really care. Everything about me changes. I don’t get nervous, I don’t get scared, I don’t get butterflies, I don’t have no feeling towards the man I’m fit to fight. That’s the Bronze Bomber, and he want [a body.]”
Maybe our favorite wrestler, The Undertaker, could ask the Bronze Bomber to pair with him on a tag team match. Because it seems that despite the WWE’s best attempts to hype his upcoming match with wrestler-turned-actor John Cena, it hasn’t been getting the attention expected. Forbes magazine goes over the missteps to what should have been ratings gold.
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