Word: jails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision was not unexpected: To uphold the emergency appeal ? and send Woodward back to jail for killing baby Matthew Eappen ? the prosecution would have had to display a reason why this cannot go through the normal appeals process. Most legal experts couldn?t see one, and the judge seemed to concur. Even in a high profile case such as this, the wheels of justice spin slowly...
...find the arena of the bulk of death penalty discourse. Even those who have no moral opposition to the state's disposal of its worst criminals doubt whether society ought to adopt such a powerful and dangerous weapon. After all, death is permanent: if we put someone in jail for life, we can always free him if new evidence crops up; but if we execute him, we cannot undo any subsequently discovered injustice. However, this is a difference in degree, not in kind. We must consider it a societal tragedy if we wrongfully incriminate the innocent, whether we kill...
...face for the Chinese leadership. Earlier this month James Sasser, the U.S. Ambassador to China, said he was "personally disappointed" that Jiang's tour across America had not brought the release of political prisoners, but in the same week he got word that Wei would soon be out of jail...
...that he had not seen the last of his homeland. "I certainly plan to go back," he said. "I never planned to leave." In fact, he added, "I'd be willing to return to China under almost any circumstances." Except perhaps one: "No one wants to go back to jail...
From his Denver jail cell, the nearly bald, swastika-tattooed murder suspect spoke the sort of poker-faced lunacy that the nation hoped it had left behind. "In a war," said Nathan Thill, 19, explaining why he shot defenseless Mauritanian immigrant Oumar Dia, "everyone wearing an enemy uniform is an enemy and should be taken out." Dia's "uniform" was apparently his skin color. Thill's "war," of course, existed only in his head. Or did it? Last week, after attacks on civilians and police by short-haired haters that left two people dead, one paralyzed and parts...