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...were tried by a jury of eleven white men and one black man. According to the film, minorities are unfairly excluded from juries because they are perceived to be opposed to the death penalty. The film also claims that race plays a prominent role in convictions. In Texas, the killer of a white victim is 30 times more likely to be executed than the killer of a black victim, the documentary cited. In a panel discussion following the film, panelists stressed the importance of fairness in selecting a jury and having competent court-appointed lawyers for defendants. Rachel Lyon...
...look forward to my trial," Noorzai says in detention in New York City. He will have a lawyer with an imposing 6-ft. 5-in. frame and a high-profile list of legal contests, if not victories. Ivan Fisher made his name defending Jack Henry Abbott, a convicted killer whose gritty prison memoir, In the Belly of the Beast, was famously championed by Norman Mailer. Fisher is no stranger to bad guys. In the 1990s, Fisher defended Haji Ayub Afridi, a man widely believed to be one of Pakistan's major narcotraffickers, as well as someone who was thought...
...issues that (thankfully) pushed Coca-Cola to agree to investigations last spring. But again, the only way that workers can be saved from losing their jobs is if the protesters demonstrate their own willingness to pay more for products. As Coca-Cola could see from Killer Coke’s campaign to incorporate local soda makers into Harvard University Dining Services (which likely would have cost more money), money is less of an issue than humanity...
...also received unofficial word that her daughter had been abducted and beaten to death by the Red Guards, who presumably were trying to force her to denounce her mother, and that the government had arrested the man considered guilty. Only after she left China did Cheng learn that the killer had been given...
...journey of the Lost Boys is poignant and engrossing, but it's not unfamiliar. Beah, however, is a new breed; he's not just a victim but a perpetrator. For almost the first time, we are seeing life from behind the dead eyes of a killer child. And life is not good. How many people did he kill? "I really have no idea," Beah says during an interview in Paris, where he is taking some time off before his publicity tour. "I never thought to keep count. We attacked civilians, villagers--anyone the commander deemed was an enemy; we killed...