“In the coming weeks it will be common for young men to attempt to emulate the behaviour exhibited at Virginia Tech.”
Arizona State University behavioural scientist Joseph Diaz on the shootings in Virginia that left 33 dead (The Daily Telegraph, London, 17 April)
“I’m extremely steamed about it. There is an awful lot of momentum to not build this costly, dubious new death hotel.”
Democrat assemblyman Jared Huffman on the discovery that construction of a new execution chamber at San Quentin state prison is well under way, despite the fact that the death penalty is suspended in California at present (…
