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Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) [1] was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland . Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
On June 15, 1990, 9-year-old Autumn Wallace was stabbed to death. Prosecutors say 18-year-old Alfaro, an acquaintance of the family, robbed the house for drug money, and killed Wallace so she would not be identified. 32 years, 5 months and 14 days In August 2007, the California Supreme Court voted unanimously to uphold Alfaro's death sentence.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Delaware since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976.. All of the 16 people were convicted of murder and have been executed at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, near Smyrna, Delaware. [1]
Clifton Newman presided over two of their trials, and the details of those two cases are horrific. Ron O. Finklea was sentenced to death for shooting a security guard at a plant in Lexington ...
The cause of death was hanging, using his boxers, according to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. In connection with his death, the jail was issued a notice of non-compliance from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards related to observations. The guard reportedly failed to check on Moore for an hour and seven minutes.
21st century legal scholars, Civil Rights lawyers, and advocates, like Michelle Alexander, often refer to both past and modern police officers and officials of the United States' criminal justice system's as legalized, modern lynch mobs because they have the ability to sentence one to life in prison or with the death penalty under the law but ...
LANSING — A Mason man was sentenced to prison Monday for his role in a crash that killed his younger sister and another 16-year-old girl last fall in Delhi Township.
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