It was a notorious prison during Australia's early colonial era when it was known contemptuously as "Gomorrah Island", a place where Britain sent the worst convict re-offenders from New South Wales and Tasmania, men and women alike, to be flogged into submission by "skinners" or "backscratchers".
The worst convict prison in Tasmania's history is also the site of Australia's worst mass shooting, 1996's Port Arthur Massacre, which led to the country's tight gun legislation.
In Tasmania, they founded a prison to house the worst of the convicts.
Yet, 173 men remain held in illegal detention in Guantánamo, despite 75 of them having been cleared for release, in conditions that still do not come close to matching those afforded to the worst of the convicted prisoners in the US.
It instructs agents to focus on the worst offenders, including criminal convicts, gang members and foreigners who came back after being expelled.
Those trips are some of the worst days of a convict's incarceration.
"Not in vain, just a few days after the sentence was handed down that convicted the worst killer of all killers for the crime of genocide, the earth trembled in Guatemala; the earth shook because she knew that impunity had not yet been overcome: the earth shook with rage, and rightly so".
But today I know that at least one of the people who came to see Stein and Toklas at Culoz was not a good guy — indeed, was one of the very worst guys, convicted of collaboration after the war and sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor.
Relativism is the worst thing you could be convicted of.
Passage of the initiative would end a capital punishment system that is almost certainly unconstitutional on the most fundamental basis: many who have received the state death sentence do not rank as the worst of the worst among convicted criminals.
