Jarvis DeBerry

2 weeks ago | msnbc.com | Jarvis DeBerry

There’s a popular fable about the person who shows pity to an ailing venomous snake after securing its promise not to bite. When the snake ultimately strikes its rescuer, it’s unapologetic: “You knew what I was when you picked me up.”Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., knew who Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was when he voted to confirm him as health secretary earlier this year.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Jarvis DeBerry

3 hours ago"Gov. Newsom has done a disservice to the State of California for many years," Noem said in the Oval Office Tuesday. Kristi Noem had a message for California voters on Tuesday, and it concerned California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Various members of Donald Trump’s Cabinet addressed the media from the Oval …

3 weeks ago | msnbc.com | Jarvis DeBerry

Antoine Massey, one of two men still on the run after escaping from the jail in New Orleans on May 16, made his case to the public — and to President Donald Trump — in two social media posts over the weekend. Massey’s bold strategy to record a video of himself likely increases the chance that he will soon be caught. But his decision to ask Trump shows just how strongly Trump has become associated with taking up the cause of people who’ve been accused or convicted of crimes.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jarvis DeBerry

Antoine Massey, one of two men still on the run after escaping from the jail in New Orleans on May 16, made his case to the public — and to President Donald Trump — in two social media posts over the weekend. Massey’s bold strategy to record a video of himself likely increases the chance that he will soon be caught. But his decision to ask Trump shows just how strongly Trump has become associated with taking up the cause of people who’ve been accused or convicted of crimes.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jarvis DeBerry

The recent revival of old-school execution methods is one of the most distressing signs that the United States is moving backward. While other countries eliminate the death penalty, in the U.S., we have leaders champing at the bit to kill death row prisoners. In response to arguments that lethal injection methods have inflicted lingering and excruciating pain on the executed, those leaders have turned back the clock to methods they can pretend as relatively painless. But it’s all a farce.