THE DIGNITY INDEX

The Pride of the Yankees? It Ain’t Rudy.

NEWSWEEK

From the magazine issue dated Nov 5, 2007

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A weekly mathematical survey of bad behavior that measures, on a scale of 1 to 100, just how low a person can go.

Texas Judge Sharon Keller refuses to keep her court open an extra 20 minutes so lawyers could fix a computer glitch and file a death-row appeal. Hours later, the inmate was executed.
Score: 32

A bittersweet buh-bye to Sen. Larry Craig. Your three-week reign of shame (for ruining Idaho's Hall of Fame ceremony just by showing up) is over. You've been bested. Or worsted.
Score: 73

Pandering for votes, lifelong Yankee fan Rudy Giuliani does the unthinkable: he's rooting for the Red Sox in the World Series. So wrong on so many levels, we're speechless.
Score: 95

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Posted By: katielouisemiller1215 @ 12/20/2007 10:04:29 PM

A woman disregarding a human life, not to mention her role as judge to uphold and protect the rights of her citizens, is disheartening, to say the least. Why would you put this on even the same page as something about a mayor's pasttime, let alone with a light-hearted comment and in the same piece. Newsweek - I no longer regard you as news to read and consider, but rather more media crap to ponder in disbelief.
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Posted By: las341 @ 10/31/2007 10:05:22 PM

Judge Keller's inhuman and autocratic refusal to allow attorney's for a death-row appellee to fix a computer glitch must surely rate higher than Rudy Giulliani's choice of baseball teams. Utterly shameless doesn't begin to say enough about her cruel and, one hopes, unusual actions.
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Posted By: LibrarianJoe @ 10/31/2007 1:58:55 PM

Am I to understand that, by your mathematical reckoning, Giuliani is almost three times more shameless than Judge Keller who closed her court because she could not spare twenty minutes for a stay of execution? Is the life of a human being of such little consequence to you that you felt his death belonged on a sidebar that is supposed to provide a bit of a giggle? One of the most repellent things I have ever read.