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According to a study done by the Death Penalty Information Center, an anti-death penalty organization in Washington D.C., since capital punishment was reinstated in 1973, 69 people awaiting execution on death row have been set free. They were released because they were either improperly convicted or evidence providing their innocence was discovered after their sentencing. The study also states that these unlucky souls represent only slightly more than 1 percent of the nearly 6,000 people who have been sentenced to die in the last 24 years...
...Center's study shows that the innocent do indeed have something to fear. Supporters of capital punishment are quick to point out that many of those released from death row are set free due to technicalities. But the term "technicality" is a euphemism used to describe a flawed judicial process...
WASHINGTON: At this rate, only lottery winners will be able to send their kids to college. For the fifth year in a row, America's private and public schools have stuck it to Mom and Dad by hiking tuition nearly 5 percent ? that's triple the rate of inflation. The increase adds between $136 and $670 per year onto tuition costs ? making $3,000 the norm for public schools, while those who wish to be privately educated face a nose-bleedingly high $13,000 per year. Factor in room, board and expenses, and the total cost of college hits about...
...preceded the shooting of Villegas. Polo is hard on the horses, which must stop on a dime while in full gallop and make sudden turns so riders can chase the ball. Friends say Cummings, a committed animal lover, did not want her ponies to play two days in a row. Villegas, who had been in a match on Saturday, Sept. 6, was scheduled to play again on the day he was killed...
...personal-injury suit that claimed he was beaten up by Shakur and friends hours before the rap star was killed. Shakur's lawyer, Richard Fischbein, immediately fired back with a wrongful-death lawsuit against Anderson. Earlier, Shakur's mother Afeni won control of Shakur's master recordings from Death Row Records, and settled a claim that the estate owed the company more than $7 million. An Arkansas woman's award of $16.6 million after being shot and paralyzed at a Shakur concert is being appealed. Even Shakur's father is suing for a cut. The prize for the most bizarre...