After China, Iran is now the nation with the second highest incidence of capital punishment. Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2016 that Iran put over 830 people to death last year, the majority of whom were sentenced for drug convictions. That’s 2.27 people per day on average. The number …
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Kenneth Creighton would like to have back the five years of his life he waited beyond bars in Rikers Island for a trial that would never happen. Now he’s suing the city of New York for the lost time. Creighton was only seventeen years old when he was arrested in …
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After being drugged and waking up at a stranger’s house likely to have been raped the night before, a San Francisco woman went through four hours of a sexual assault examination at a hospital in May 2010. Cops told her the rape kit would be tested very soon but continued …
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