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Blessed are the peacemakers, but the First Couple of France may have had more political aims in engineering their dramatic accord with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The personal involvement of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Cécilia in freeing six medics who faced execution in Libya on trumped...
In any case, it was just another sign of Sarkozy's results-focused approach to politics and his intent to raise France's profile in foreign affairs. He first pledged to concentrate on the prisoners' plight when he took office in May. Convicted of purposely infecting nearly 440 Libyan children...
After a six-hour hearing that had been scheduled for just an hour, the George State Board of Pardons and Paroles late Monday announced a 90-day stay of execution for Troy Anthony Davis, a Georgia man who had been scheduled to die on Tuesday for the 1989 murder of...
While Davis no longer faces imminent death, the stay of execution does not mean he will go free. Ewart said the board's decision gives his defense team time to gather more evidence before likely making another appearance before the board, which can commute Davis' sentence to life in prison...
Ewart was talking with TIME when he learned of the stay of execution. He was lauding the testimony at the hearing of civil rights advocate U.S. Rep. John Lewis, the Georgia Democrat who was severely beaten during civil rights marches in the 1960s. "I do not know Troy Anthony Davis...