On Thursday April 16, 2009 at 6:16 p.m, 49-year-old Jimmy Lee Dill was executed in the state of Alabama for the 1988 shooting death of Leon Shaw during a cocaine robbery. Dill’s new lawyers requested to delay the execution arguing that their client had ineffective attorneys at his trail, and he misunderstood a plea that [...]

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From the Independent Over 1,500 farmers in an Indian state committed suicide after being driven to debt by crop failure, it was reported today. The agricultural state of Chattisgarh was hit by falling water levels. “The water level has gone down below 250 feet here. It used to be at 40 feet a few years [...]

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GREELEY, Colorado (CNN) — It started as a tryst, arranged online, in a quiet town in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. She was an 18-year-old transgender woman. He was a 32-year-old rough-and-tumble gang member. It ended in homicide. Opening statements began Thursday in the trial of Allen Andrade, accused of murdering Justin “Angie” Zapata, [...]

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From Toronto Star By handing what amounted to a one-day prison term to a man who admitted strangling a pregnant sex-trade worker, an experienced Ontario trial judge fashioned a “just sentence” that in no way devalues the victim’s life, the province’s highest court ruled yesterday. In a 3-0 decision yesterday, the Ontario Court of Appeal [...]

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From NY POST WITH the “American Idol” audience on its feet, stomping and chanting, “Save him!” judges last night decided to use their one-time power to rescue soulful balladeer Matt Giraud. “Matt, it’s good news,” said Simon Cowell. It wasn’t the first time the likable 23-year-old from Kalamazoo, Mich., had been pulled back from the [...]

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