Word: ruiz
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...their shared mausoleum. For the first time in five centuries the cry of the muezzin can be heard calling the faithful to prayer from atop the first minaret to be built in the city since Moorish times. "This is a homecoming for the Islamic faith," says Malik Abder Rahman Ruiz, president of the foundation that has built the mosque. "We were expelled and persecuted but we have returned, not to reconquer the country, but to resume our rightful place." The strong turnout by local and regional dignitaries at the mosque's dedication ceremony earlier this month suggests that the citizens...
...have it both ways? Why is it so hard to have a death penalty and make sure only the guilty receive it? Because of cases like The State of Texas v. Delamora. On Feb. 15, 2001, Travis County sheriff's deputy Keith Ruiz was shot and killed while prying open the door to Edwin Delamora's trailer. Ruiz had gone with members of the Capital Area Narcotics Task Force to arrest Delamora on charges of selling methamphetamine. Frightened, Delamora fired his 9-mm pistol through a window in his front door. Prosecutors said the bullet hit Ruiz in the aorta...
...Earle, it was a difficult case from the start. Because Ruiz was a cop, people would expect a death-penalty prosecution. But Delamora did not have a criminally violent history, which weakened the argument for future dangerousness. On the other hand, a jury might be convinced that a meth dealer who had brazenly fired a pistol through his door had a propensity for violence. Earle remained undecided for months as staff prosecutors worked up the case. During that time, the narcotics task force conducted a second raid that ended in a fatality. And in yet another botched raid, members...
...trial, the jury found Delamora guilty of capital murder, and because death wasn't an option, he automatically received what Texas law calls a "life" sentence in prison--no possibility of parole for 40 years. That wasn't enough for many Texans, who were furious: Ruiz's widow Bernadette and his boss, the county sheriff, were both quoted in the American-Statesman as criticizing the decision not to seek death. Texas attorney general John Cornyn, who was in the midst of a successful campaign to become a U.S. Senator, publicly attacked Earle. Nor was Delamora pleased; he is appealing...
...first golden age of Latin American film. In the '40s and '50s, Mexico's cinema was so well regarded that Europeans like Buñuel learned to hone their craft there. In the '60s, Brazil's Cinema Novo rivaled the French and Italian new waves, and Chile's Ra?l Ruiz (now self-exiled in Paris) has long had a substantial European following. But starting in the '70s, Latin cinema's funding, talent and audience got sucked away by telenovelas - the cheesy, prime-time TV soap operas that still overwhelm Latin entertainment. In the '70s, Brazilian films held an impressive...