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Just a few miles from central London, home to the spectacular new Tate Modern and million-dollar apartments that reflect the prosperous, optimistic side of Tony Blair's Britain, Paddy Brunton spent his final days in a rather different country. Brunton, 80, a former BBC electrician, developed blood clots in his heart and lungs in February. After an eight-hour wait for a bed, he was admitted to a 20-patient ward at the Whittington Hospital in north London, one of the top 40 in Britain...
...March, another Florida jury sentenced14-year-old Lionel Tate, who killed a younger girl while practicing wrestling moves on her, to life in prison without parole. The concurrent Brazill and Tate trials served to heighten the public misconception that juvenile violent crime is on the rise; in fact, recent figures show a precipitous drop over the last five years...
These 17 paintings drawn from collections including the Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art were started in Paris and London between 1935 and 1940. The paintings came with Mondrian on his journey to New York...
...addition, Tate's sentencing points to the inherent problems concerning mandatory sentencing. Even the prosecutors felt the Tate sentence was too harsh; they favored a plea-bargain sentencing the boy to three years imprisonment, followed by house arrest and ten years probation-an offer rejected by the defense prior to the case. Tragically, once he was convicted, the judge had little choice but to impose the mandatory sentence. Florida laws have made it nearly impossible for judges to use their discretion when sentencing violent offenders; as a result, the extraordinary circumstances of this case were not taken into account...
...Tate's fate lies in the hands of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who can offer clemency to the boy. Luckily, it seems that Bush will respond to the significant public outcry by commuting the sentence. But this safeguard should not have been necessary...