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Orphanage Workers Deported from Morocco leaving orphans behind

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REMEMBER THE MOVEMENT! 365 Days of Marching-The Amadou Diallo Story Friday, February 26

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Because we aren't all brothers

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US prison population hits 2.3 million all-time high

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29 Year Old US Citizen Held in NYC Prison 23-hour Solitary Confinement For 3 Years Trial Delayed

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Cell phone video shows police beating of student

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We Have Been Warned IF YOUR AMERICAN YOU MUST READ

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'Texas man faces execution after jurors consult Bible to decide fate ' by Tom Leonard - Telegraph.co

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Jurors (from Texas) sentence man to his death after the bible tells them to

A Texas man is due to be executed next month despite admissions by jurors that they consulted biblical passages advocating death as a punishment to help to decide his fate.

Before sending Khristian Oliver to his death after he was convicted of murdering his victim — who was bludgeoned with a gun barrel — jurors read passages of the Old Testament, including one that states that a killer who uses an iron object to kill “shall surely be put to death”. Oliver, 32, is due to be executed on November 5. He was convicted in 1999 of the murder of Joe Collins, 64, during a 1998 break-in at the victim’s rural East Texas home.

During the trial, the jurors were instructed by the judge not to refer to anything that was not presented as evidence in the courtroom.

Amnesty International called on the Texas authorities to commute Oliver’s death sentence because since his trial, jurors had admitted that they read the Bible while they decided whether he should live or die. In particular, they said that Bibles were passed around with specific passages highlighted, and that one juror read aloud to his fellow jurors the passage, from Numbers XXXV, 16: “And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.”

Mr Collins was shot by Oliver and then repeatedly struck with a gun barrel.

In a post-trial hearing two months after Oliver was condemned to death, four jurors acknowledged to the judge that Bibles had been present in the jury room, and that highlighted passages were passed around.

In 2002 a Danish journalist interviewed a fifth juror, who said that “about 80 per cent” of the jurors had “brought scripture into the deliberation” and that they had consulted the Bible “long before we ever reached a verdict”.

The fifth juror also said that he believed “the Bible is truth from page one to the last page”, and that if civil law and biblical law were in conflict, the latter should prevail.

He added that if he had been told he could not consult the Bible, “I would have left the courtroom”. He described himself as a death penalty supporter, saying that life imprisonment was a burden on the taxpayer.

The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals said last year that jurors had wrongly used the Bible and that it had amounted to an “external influence” prohibited under the US Constitution. Yet the court said there was not enough evidence to show they were prejudiced when they decided to send Oliver to death row.

In April the US Supreme Court — the final chance Oliver had to appeal against his death sentence — refused to hear the case, despite being urged to do so by 50 former and current federal and state prosecutors. Kate Allen, the British director of Amnesty, called the use of the Bible in the juror’s deliberations “deeply, deeply troubling”.A Texas man is due to be executed next month despite admissions by jurors that they... more

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A innocent canadian pakistani declare terrorest in us based on a false,fabricated case by FBI.

I am grateful to Mr. Don Harkins the editor of THE IDAHO OBSERVER, (USA) and her associates Ms. Anne Wilder Chamberlain to help me prepare my story.

The following short note comes from them:-

KHALID
When we first began corresponding with Khalid Awan in 2007, we had no idea why he was serving time in U.S federal prison.We soon discovered Awan was one of the first of thousands of Muslims taken prisoner in the post-9/11 U.S "terror War". As the story began unfolding in our letters, we began to realize that this honest, humble and sincere man was not only innocent, but the ongoing injustice being done to him provides critical insight into the mindless, mean-spirited, bureaucratic-yes-men idiocy fueling the illegal U.S. "War on Terror" (and just about everything else that is going wrong in this country). At our insistence, Awan wrote his story and supplied us with whatever documents we requested. And now, after three months of cooperative efforts, the story of Khalid Awan can be told. We have come to know Awan as a peaceful man engaged in peaceful work, who has been wrongfully accused, detained and repeatedly convicted of crimes he did not commit because he was a Muslim with international connections and an office in New York on 9/11. Anyone who might of the Muslim belief, especially a person raised overseas who has difficulty understanding our language and our corrupt judicial system, can be arrested and detained indefinitely in this country, certainly without a trial before a jury of his peers. Khalid is one of these Muslims.

We present this to you in faith that you will realize a deeper understanding of the levels of complicity necessary for the "land of free" to tolerate the phony war on terror year after year and in hope that Awan --- and all the other million or more political prisoners being held by this country---will one day be reunited with their families.

(Thanks from the bottom of my heart to you, Mr. Don Harkin and Ms. Anne W. Chaimberlain for your devoted, caring attention in helping me expose my plight and injustices being suffered by myself and others. Your humanitarian devotion, on-going help and attitude truly an inspiration to me in my life!)

Khalid Qayyum Awan (From USA Federal Prison)

CONTACT OR MAILING ADDRESS IS GIVEN BELOW

Khalid Awan # 50959-054
USP Marion
P.O.BOX : 1000
Marion, IL 62959
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Repression of peaceful resistance to coup in Honduras

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Documentary: The Real McCoys

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US oil company sued for Amazon exploration

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Injustice prevails again in a racist death penalty case.

Reginald Blanton is being convicted for a crime he did not commit. The evidence... more

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a petition to ban private prisons

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Justice Committee: Press Conference Calling For Justice

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Omnipresence

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BEAUTIFUL WORLD

Put the war away boys........

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Teen who lit joint for essay says he knew all the risks

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Wrongly Convicted Central Park 5' Seek Compensation

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