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She would have become the second woman executed in the U.S. since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, but hours before Guinevere Garcia's scheduled lethal injection, Illinois Governor Jim Edgar commuted her sentence to life in prison without parole. Edgar said he acted not because of Garcia's troubled...
Authorities in Peru take a far harsher view of Lori Berenson. They regard her as a dangerous radical who became closely involved with Marxist terrorists of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)--hiding them in her home, stockpiling their weapons, helping them plan an attack on the Peruvian Congress. Convicted...
He wanted to go after shootings, and he knew that gun possession and drug dealing were intertwined. "It's relatively hard for a uniformed patrolman to catch someone carrying drugs,'' Maple says. "But as we'd seen, it's easy to catch someone for an open can of beer on...
A three-judge panel in Beijing upheld a 14-year sentence for Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng. One of the leaders of the 1979 Democracy Wall movement, Wei has spent all but seven months of the past 16 years in prison on charges of sedition. It was Wei's continued pro...
Elisa stopped attending school, and neighbors say they saw less and less of her. On Nov. 15, Carlos Lopez was jailed again for violating his parole agreement. And on Nov. 22, the day before Thanksgiving, all that was twisted in Awilda apparently snapped. One of her sisters, quoted in the...