Word: innocente
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When things get too weird, a small crew of angst-ridden teenagers steps in to save the day. There's Stan, the wannabe intellectual football captain; Stokely, the grungy science fiction-reading loner; Zeke, the brilliant drug-dealing second-year senior; Delilah, the self loathing head cheerleader; Marybeth, the annoyingly...
Finally, the death sentence is not infallible. Since 1972, 69 wrongfully-convicted people have been released from death row. In some terrible cases the accused have not been vindicated in time: At least 23 innocent people (based on later evidence) have been executed during this century.
*names have been changed to protect the innocent (and guilty)
Readers of Noah D. Oppenheim's frightening editorial "The Cop Killer Should Fry" (Opinion, Feb. 5) should know that the facts of the case are in wide dispute. It is a little suspect that the award-winning president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, long an outspoken critic of...
Two articles printed the same morning of Oppenheim's editorial are especially ironic. The first was about an African-American man, Anthony Porter, who had been on death row for 16 years and came within two days of being executed. Last week, journalism students at Northwestern University found the real...