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Samantha Louise Lewthwaite (/ ˈ l uː θ w eɪ t /; born 5 December 1983), also known as Sherafiyah Lewthwaite or the White Widow, is a British terrorist who is one of the Western world's most wanted terrorism suspects.
Sally-Anne Frances Jones (17 November 1968 – c. June 2017) was a British terrorist, Islamist, and UN-designated recruiter and propagandist for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), known variously as Umm Hussain al-Britani, [a] Sakinah Hussein, [b] and the White Widow. She is thought to have been killed in June 2017 by a US drone ...
In a 6–3 decision, Justice White wrote for the majority that a defendant facing the death penalty may challenge for cause a prospective juror who would automatically vote to impose the death penalty in every case. Just as a juror who is unalterably opposed to the imposition of the death penalty must be excluded because he or she cannot ...
Harris, 465 U.S. 37 (1984) — A state appellate court, before it affirms a death sentence, is not required to compare the sentence in the case before it with the penalties imposed in similar cases if requested to do so by the prisoner. Whitmore v. Arkansas, 495 U.S. 149 (1990) — Mandatory appellate review is not required in death penalty cases.
The U.S. Supreme Court reviewed the ruling and on May 2, 2011, the court revoked the decision of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals and reinstated the death penalty in Mitts's case, stating that these instructions made to the jury back in 1994 during Mitts's murder trial were not a breach of his constitutional rights to a fair trial and the U.S ...
The White Widow may refer to: Samantha Lewthwaite (born 1983), Islamic State terrorist suspect and widow of London tube bomber Germaine Lindsay Sally-Anne Jones (1968-2017), English-born terrorist and propagandist for the Islamic State
White Widow may refer to: Samantha Lewthwaite (born 1983), terrorist suspect and widow of 7/7 suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay; Sally-Anne Jones, British-born U.N.-designated recruiter and propaganda for the Islamic State (ISIS) White Widow (Cannabis), a strain of Cannabis; White widow spider (Latrodectus pallidus), a white-colored species of ...
The following is a list of white defendants executed for killing a black victim.Executions of white defendants for killing black victims are rare. Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976, just 21 white people have been executed for killing a black person (less than 1.36 percent of all executions), whereas the number of black people executed for killing a ...