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...Tuesday, the United States’ criminal justice system struck again, as Stanley Tookie Williams, a cofounder of the street gang the Crips, was executed by the State of California. While there is no question that the crimes Williams was convicted of were horrific, Williams’ reformation in jail was remarkable and could have served as a model for other prisoners. It is morally reprehensible that the death penalty still exists in a country that disavows “cruel and unusual punishment” in its very constitution. The death penalty exists today as a grisly spectacle meant...
...became a challenge for all of us. We all want the prison to win." PRISCILA MARIA PEREIRA FERREIRA, an inmate at a jail near S?o Paulo, Brazil, who competed in a government-sanctioned Miss Penitenciaria beauty pageant...
...they presented in court, which they insist showed that al-Arian gave illegal "material support" to a terrorist group. Despite his acquittal, al-Arian remained behind bars last week as prosecutors pondered whether to retry him on the charges the jurors deadlocked on. But even if he emerges from jail, the trial's revelations about his stealth involvement with Islamic Jihad--after he claimed for years that he rejected the group--have all but wrecked his standing as a spokesman for mainstream Palestinian causes...
Bush's path to the 2005 Heisman began 130 miles down I-5 in San Diego, where he grew up in a blue-collar family with mother Denise, a deputy sheriff in a county jail; stepfather LaMar, a security officer; and half brother Jovan, 14. Bush's relationship with his biological father, which he describes as a "a roller coaster," complicated his childhood. "It was tough with both sides of the family not getting along too well," he says. "[I was] caught in a tug-of-war." Bush calls LaMar his father (during his Heisman acceptance speech, Bush broke down...
...Some European countries insist on saying that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces, to the extent that if anyone proves something contrary they condemn that person and throw them in jail." MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran and Holocaust denier who last week suggested moving the Zionist state to Europe...