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Their efforts were lauded by President Obama who noted these reforms will improve rehabilitation and workforce opportunities for those who have served their sentences. In their arguments they noted that mandatory sentencing is often too harsh of a punishment and cripples someone's livelihood for minor crimes.
The sentences were lauded by women organizations in Turkey. During the whole 19 months since Şule Çet murder, the case was accompanied by a social media campaign with the hashtag #SuleCetIcinAdalet (Justice for Sule Cet). [6]
A state parole panel has blocked the release of former LAPD Det. Stephanie Lazarus, reversing an earlier decision that could have freed her from a life sentence for the 1986 murder of her ex ...
His current judge has lauded him as a “model prisoner” and agrees that his life sentence is “longer than necessary to accomplish ... As part of the clinic’s Excessive Sentences Project ...
VERO BEACH − A former restaurant cook who in 2017 fatally stabbed Debora Jackson outside her Vero Green Apartments building, escaped a state execution but he will spend the rest of his life in ...
Biden had faced pressure from advocacy organizations to commute federal death sentences, and several praised him for taking action in his final month in office. Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU, said in a statement that Biden “has shown our country — and the rest of the world — that the brutal and inhumane policies of our ...
United States: Tenzin Dorjee, chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), lauded the ruling, saying: "The case of Asia Bibi illustrates the extent to which blasphemy laws can be exploited to target minority communities. These laws seek to protect entire religions rather than the individual, as should be ...
The president on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates, reclassifying their sentences from execution to… Biden’s death row commutations draws chorus of mixed reactions