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Jeff Koenig (Kevin Bacon's Stand-in) and Desiree Markella
(Disclaimer: The pictures here are photos from Desiree's personal collection and are in no way the official stills released by Twentieth Century Fox; and should not be used as such.)
August 21 2013: NY City: Free Bradley Manning Demonstration in Times Square, NY City, after Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for revealing documents the US Government didn't want its citizens to know about. He is considered an American hero by many. Copyright David Grossman
11, may, 2009
I like to explain something about this shot. This is a tree from Jahangirnagar University campus, Bangladesh. Few months ago, authority of JU decided to cut huge trees from campus without any reasonable cause. and they took attempt to mark the trees for killing. This was the sign of "DEATH SENTENCED".]
N/B: The students of JU protested this lewd attempt with their maximum effort......coz, These trees are the soul of JU's beauty; these trees are the the safest shelter of the Birds...these trees are....................
Angel Luis Arzola Velez, 25, from Chicago is shown in a November 1954 photograph. He was a Puerto Rican Nationalist Party member accused of conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States.
Arzola Velez was convicted and sentenced in 1955 to 18 months in prison for sedition.
Sedition trial:
Following the wounding of five U.S. Representatives in the Capitol building March 1, 1954 by four Puerto Rican nationalists who opened fire on them from a visitor gallery, the U.S. government began a series of mass arrests that resulted in two conspiracy trials 1954-55. A third trial took place in Puerto Rico.
The four participants in the shooting—Delores Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irvin Flores Rodriguez and Andres Figueroa Cordero—were quickly arrested and convicted in the attack with sentences varying from 16 years to 75 years in jail.
But the federal government went further, convening three different grand juries, summoning 91 Puerto Ricans and bringing indictments against 17 members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party for “seditious conspiracy to overthrow the United States government by force.”
The four charged in the shootings were also among the 17 charged with conspiracy.
The indictment alleged that the defendants were “active members, leaders, officers or persons in control of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, which is charged to be an organization dedicated to bringing about the political independence of Puerto Rico from the United States by force of violence or armed revolution.”
In effect, the government was using the same strategy it was using to break up the U.S. Communist Party during that period. If you were an active member of the Nationalist Party, you were guilty even if you committed no illegal acts yourself.
Four of those charged turned state’s evidence and gave testimony against the other defendants.
At the first month-long trial in October 1954, much of the evidence against the group consisted of testimony by police or informers of speeches given by Nationalist Party leaders who had used slogans like, “Throw the Yankees out at pistol point,” “give your life and property for independence,” and saying that President Harry Truman “could be hanged in a place in San Juan.”
Many of the speeches dated prior to the 1950 attempted armed revolution in Puerto Rico by the Nationalist Party that was defeated and for which many party members were jailed in Puerto Rico.
Defense attorney Conrad J. Lynn charged the government sought “proscription of a dissenting political group because of its ideas.”
Julio Pinto Gandia, a defendant who was acting as his own counsel and was the alleged leader of the group in the U.S., told the court that the party, founded in 1922, was not “a band of terrorists” and that any violent actions arose out of individual “despair.”
The most sensational specific testimony came from one of those indicted who turned state’s evidence--Gonzalo Lebron Sotomayor, brother of Delores Lolita Lebron who was the leader of the four shooters.
Lebron Sotomayor testified that Pinto Gandia told him there would be attacks on Congress, President Dwight Eisenhower and the Puerto Rican Resident Commissioner in Washington, but could not say how the plans would be carried out.
Other specific testimony involved another of those indicted who turned state’s evidence. Angle Luis Medina testified he had purchased a number of pistols and three carbines in Chicago at the direction of a party leader who told him “to be ready in case of a revolution” to free Puerto Rico.
The evidence against most of the defendants committing any specific illegal act was thin.
U.S. Attorney J. Edward Lumbard summed up the case saying that the Nationalist Party had supplied the pistols used in the U.S. Capitol shooting and a 1950 attempt to assassinate President Harry Truman and that each of the 13 defendants had their “moral fingerprints on the guns” used.
Lumbard further told the jury that the government did not have to prove that the defendants were part of a conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government—only that they had conspired to overthrow the authority of the United States in Puerto Rico.
The defense called five witnesses to testify that the Nationalist Party did not advocate overthrow of the U.S. government and only sought total independence for Puerto Rico.
Lynn told the jury that the government was trying “proscription of a dissenting political group because of its ideas.”
Pinto Gandia had earlier sought dismissal of the indictments against the four shooters as double jeopardy and because the government, “intended to bring the guilt of the four defendants upon the other defendants by association or inference.”
He added, “it is not a crime to preach and work for the freedom of a nation and that membership in the Nationalist Party itself did not indicate anyone was part of a conspiracy.
The jury deliberated only a few hours before finding all the defendants guilty.
Two weeks after the verdicts, more arrests took place and a second trial scheduled.
The trial of 11 other Nationalists took place February-March 1955 and followed the same lines as the first trial, except that Lebron Sotomayer gave additional details to his earlier testimony.
Ten of the 11 were found guilty. Serafin Colon Olivera, 28 of New York, was acquitted. Testimony had indicated he was a Nationalist Party member in 1949 and attended a Nationalist dance in 1953.
Those found guilty in the two trials received sentences ranging from 18 months to six years in prison. Appeals failed.
In Puerto Rico, Nationalist Party leader Pedro Albizu Campos hailed the attack as “sublime heroism.” The governor revoked a previous pardon of the party leader and he was arrested after a shootout and imprisoned.
Charges were placed against 15 party members on the island, however 12 were acquitted at trial in late 1954. The three found guilty were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 3-10 years.
Albizu Campos’ health suffered badly in prison where he suffered a stroke in 1956 that left him unable to talk or walk. He was pardoned in 1964, but died a few months afterward.
The Nationalist Party was all but dead as a result of the U.S. trials and by suppression by authorities in Puerto Rico, although it continues to exist today.
First trial sedition trial in 1954:
Jorge Luis Jimenez, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Manuel Rabago Torres, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Rosa Collazo, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Juan Bernardo Lebron, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Juan Francisco Medina, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Armando Diaz Matos, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Julio Pinto Gandia, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Carmelo Alvarez Roman, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Jose Antonio Otero Otero, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Andress Figueroa Cordero, one of 4 convicted shooters, sentenced to additional six years imprisonment
Rafael Cancel Miranda, one of 4 convicted shooters, sentenced to additional six years imprisonment
Dolores Lolita Lebron, one of 4 convicted shooters, sentenced to additional six years imprisonment
Irvin Flores Rodriguez, one of 4 convicted shooters, sentenced to additional six years imprisonment
Second trial in 1955:
Juan Hernandez Valle, Puerto Rico, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Maximino Pedraza Martinez, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Santiago Gonzalez Castro, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Esteban Quinones Escute, sentenced to four years imprisonment
Angel Luis Arzola Velez, sentenced to four years imprisonment
Antonio Herrera Moreno, sentenced to four years imprisonment
Carmen Dolores Otero Torresola, sentenced to four years imprisonment
Pedro Aviles, sentenced to four years imprisonment
Julio Flores Medina, sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
Miguel Vargas Nieves, sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
Those who turned state’s evidence:
Gonzalo Lebron Sotomayor, suspended sentence
Francisco Cortez Ruiz, suspended sentence
Carlos Aulet, suspended sentence
Angel Luis Medina, suspended sentence
Acquitted at May 1955 trial:
Serafin Colon Olivera
For more information and related images to the 1954-55 conspiracy trials of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, see flic.kr/s/aHskRMRawC
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The photographer is unknown. The photo is believed to be a mugshot. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
lets see, left Doug Donut, drummer. See him around, his mypace is profile.myspace.com/65565240, Jim (think) do not know, will ask Doug, Sid Savage has this band still going, and sadly Pete Clever died a few years ago (RIP) It's 2010 and I miss you Pete
Eugene Debs leaves the White House after having a 30 minute conversation with U.S. President Warren Harding December 26, 1921 after his ten year sentence for speaking against World War I was commuted.
Debs, the great labor and socialist leader who ran five times for U.S president, had been released from the Atlanta penitentiary Christmas Day and headed to Washington, D.C. to call on Attorney General Harry M. Dougherty and President Warren Harding who had commuted his sentence.
Debs joked that “I’ve started for here four or five times (to the White House), but this is the first time I ever landed,” (referring to his five times running for President).
After a day and a half in the nation’s capital, Debs headed home to his wife in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Debs was known for organizing the American Railway Union, one of the first industry-wide unions in the U.S. and leading the unsuccessful Pullman Strike.
He was the greatest socialist in the United States, garnering nearly a million votes when he ran for president from his prison cell in the 1920 election. Debs had been imprisoned for making a speech opposing the draft and America’s entry into World War I.
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For a blog post on Debs visit to Washington, DC following his release from prison, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/unbowed-unbroken...
Photograph by the National Photo Company. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, reproduction Number: LC-DIG-npcc-05560 (digital file from original)
John Latimer alias Larramore, William Edmonds, Thomas Nutt, William Crannum and David Morris were sentenced at the Gloucester Assizes, Lent 1722/23, to transportation to American colonies and plantations.
Source The National Archives (UK) reference ASSI 2/7
Document reads:
Whereas John Latimer alias Larramore, William Edmonds, Thomas Nutt, William Crannum and David Morris were severally convicted at this Assizes and General Gaol Delivery of Grand Larceny for which they are liable to the punishment of burning in the hand and are ordered by this court to be transported to some of his majesty's colonies and plantations in America for the term or space of seven years as soon as conveniently maybe pursuant to the Acts of Parliament in that case lately made and provided this court doth therefore order that the said John Latimer alias Larramore, William Edmonds, Thomas Nutt, William Crannum and David Morris be severally transported and sent as soon as Conveniently maybe for the term or space of seven years to commence from the time of their convictions to some of his majesty's colonies and plantations in America pursuant to two several acts of Parliament the one made in the fourth and the other in the sixth years of the reign of his present majesty for the further preventing robbery, burglary and other felonies etc. And it is further ordered by this court that Sir John Guise, Sir Edward St John Dutton First Baronetts John Cocks, Kinard Delabore, Edmond Bray esquires and Nathaniel Lye Doctor in Divinity seven of his majesty's Justices of the peace for the said county of Gloucester or any two of them be and the said seven justices of the peace or any two of them are hereby nominated and appointed to contract with any person or persons for the performance of the transportation of the said John Latimer alias Larramore, William Edmonds, Thomas Nutt, William Crannum and David Morris and to order such and the like sufficient security, as the statutes in that case made and provided direct to be taken by order of court. And also to cause the said John Latimer alias Larramore, William Edmonds, Thomas Nutt, William Crannum and David Morris pursuant to such contracts to be delivered by the gaoler of the county of Gloucester aforesaid to the person or persons contracting for them or to their assigns. And to certify such contract and security, to be taken to the next Assize and General Gaol Delivery to be holden for this county in order to have the said certificate and contract filed amongst the records of the said court.
United Nation Mission in South Sudan in collaboration with the Ministry of Health has graduated thirty HIV/ AIDS Counsellors to help in the fight against the spread of HIV and its stigma.
The 18 days training on Voluntary Confidential Counselling and Testing of HIV brought participants from UNMISS Level II Hospital, SPLA HIV and AIDS Unit and the Ministry of Health.
The training was conducted under the theme: “Being HIV Positive is NOT a Death sentence”.
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General Eugene Owusu calls on people to fight against stigma and for people to test for their HIV status.
The Counsellors have formed a committee to monitor to the work of the newly trained HIV and AIDS counsellors in their fight against HIV.
Dr. Dronacharya Routh is one of the team leaders for the committee; he says the counsellors are expected to keep record of their work from which evaluation can be done.
UN Photo: Isaac Billy
University of Pennsylvania Law Review Symposium
Featured Panel: The Politics of Sentencing
Co-Sponsored by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers & Right on Crime
PA Sen. Stewart J. Greenleaf
Former Rep. Asa Hutchinson
Rep. Bobby Scott
Prof. John Diulio (Moderator)
(October 28, 2011)
In the months following Tony Blair's dramatic arrest at Amsterdam's Schiphol international airport the possibility that a former UK prime minister could be be tried and sentenced for war crimes has gripped the imagination of people from New York to New Delhi. Media representatives from every corner of the planet have turned the sleepy Dutch city of the Hague into a international news circus dwarfing the coverage given the O.J Simpson trial in the 90's.
According to latests foreign ministry accounts 6,560 reporters have descended upon city to cover this week's preliminary hearings which are scheduled to conclude next week.
Blair's detention on route to a conference on Middle East Security and Safety in Zurich severely strained UK – Dutch relations with some Conservative members of parliament even calling for the air strikes on military targets if the former leader was not released. In the days that followed hundreds of businesses and organisations with ties with the Netherlands were attacked throughout the United Kingdom with three Dutch citizens losing their lives in bomb attack near the country's London embassy
Not surprisingly, it has been the question of the sense and the legitimacy of the trials that is the center of attention for many eyewitnesses. Despite the lack of a legal precedent, most of them approve of the proceedings because, as U.S. writer Gore Vidal put it, "warmongers will no longer be able to live quietly in retirement." Some observers, however, have remained skeptical. Iraqi writer Salah Wali considered the indictment "bizarre" and British diplomats in Brussels have privately admitted that the British didn't "enter the war with clean hands. No nation could have done so."
The defendant, who await the world's judgment in varying postures of resentment, resignation, and revolt, is another focus for most members of the press. "While the counsel for the prosecution read UK documents about the killing of Iraqis and Afghans," railed Polish reporter Pawel Osmanczyk, enraged by the prisoner's deliberate display of boredom, "Blair yawns, or just pretends to be asleep."
Fascination for and disappointment about the banality of the man who helped in the possible murder of thousands of people also appear in the accounts of the reporters witnessing the proceedings. "Involuntarily one desires to see a greater man," wrote Australian journalist John Pliger, "who have to stand trial for all the cruelties which are spread out before the court." Afghan opposition leader, Abdullah Abdullah remarked incredulously: "He is so insignificant that you ask yourself: Was it really this degenerate who laid my country to waste... ?"
Read more: www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,174037,00.html#ixz...
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President Barack Obama on Monday commuted the sentences of 46 federal inmates convicted of non-violent drug offenses, a gesture whereby he intended to emphasize the need for reform of the U.S. criminal justice system.
The sentences will be commuted and will expire on Nov. 10, the White House said in a communique.
Practically all the prisoners who were freed by the president would have already completed their sentences if they had been convicted under current laws, presidential counsel Neil Eggleston said in a White House blog post.
The announcement comes three days before Obama is to become the first sitting president to visit a federal prison - the medium-security facility in El Reno, Oklahoma - and one day before he is to deliver a speech in which he will propose ideas for making the justice system fairer and reducing massive jailing of non-violent drug offenders.
"We spend over $80 billion a year incarcerating people who oftentimes have only been engaged in nonviolent drug offenses," said Obama on Monday in a video posted on the White House's official Facebook page.
The prisoners whose prison terms were commuted had been sentenced to "more than 20 years" in jail for their drug offenses, and 14 had been sentenced to life.
"Their punishments didn't fit the crime," Obama said, adding that he thought these people deserved a second chance.
Their sentences were handed down in accord with harsh policies that prevailed during the so-called "war on drugs" that, starting in the 1980s, increased the severity of sentences for producing, possessing or distributing illegal drugs.
Among the prisoners to be released is Joseph Burgos of Chicago, who in 1993 was sentenced to 30 years behind bars for distributing cocaine, and Juan Diego Castro, of Laredo, Texas, sentenced in 2002 to 20 years for possession of more than 5 kg of cocaine with intention to distribute it.
To date, Obama has made only rare use of the presidential power of pardon and commutation.
With Monday's announcement, the president had commuted 89 inmates' sentences since he took office in 2009, according to White House spokesman Josh Earnest, who commented on the matter in his daily press conference.
Obama mentioned the need to reform the criminal justice system in his State of the Union address in January.
Earnest said on Monday that now is the time to push for reform of the criminal justice system because many Republicans have given "signals" that they support the idea, something that is crucial for moving forward on that because they control both chambers of Congress. EFE
August 21 2013: NY City: Free Bradley Manning Demonstration in Times Square, NY City, after Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for revealing documents the US Government didn't want its citizens to know about. He is considered an American hero by many. Copyright David Grossman
Sr. Antonia Mcguire sits with inmate at Sing Sing Correctional facility’s HIV/AIDS unit after telling him his petition for compassionate release was denied.
In explaining to my Korean language pupil why his idea for categorizing Korean parts of speech was inadequate, I mentioned grammatical sentence diagrams (a guilty pleasure from 6th grade!)
He was unfamiliar, so looked them up on his computer. Just behind the screen I'm photographing, he is writing sentences I gave him so I could look at these beauties. I'm such a geek. :)
This was my personal fav.
D/FW's own The Sentenced playing last night at Three Links in the Deep Ellum section of Dallas, TX. The played with Forward from Japan, Long Knife from Portland, and two other locals Tolar and Lacerations. This was the second night this week where bands on the way to the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin played Dallas. The Sentenced were the most entertaining; based upon the rambunctiousness they are also comfortable with their level of health insurance.
On 23 May 2014, Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC), ruling in the majority, sentenced Germain Katanga to a total of 12 years’ imprisonment. The Chamber also ordered that the time spent in detention at the ICC – between 18 September 2007 and 23 May 2014 – be deducted from his sentence. Judge Christine Van den Wyngaert appended a dissenting opinion.
Pictured here: David Hooper, Defence Counsel for Germain Katanga
August 21 2013: NY City: Free Bradley Manning Demonstration in Times Square, NY City, after Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for revealing documents the US Government didn't want its citizens to know about. He is considered an American hero by many. Copyright David Grossman
Vivian Geiran, Director of Operations, The Probation Service and Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly (Chairperson) at the IPRT Open Forum 2010: 'Exploding Prisoner Numbers'. Photo by Derek Speirs.
Want to advertise your show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival? Have a life and death theme? Have skulls on your flyers? Then why not bring a coffin on to the High Street to help sell your show! Certain props really do make more out of a scene than those that just set the general ambience.
Beyond the Bridge Productions
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The sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, sentenced to death for passing information on the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, take part in a demonstration seeking clemency with their grandmother in front of the White House June 14, 1953—days before their parents’ execution.
From left to right: Robert Rosenberg, 6; Sophie Rosenberg; and Michael Rosenberg, 10.
The Rosenbergs and a third man, Morton Sobell, were tried together for passing classified information to the Soviet Union related to an atomic bomb.
Part of the prosecution strategy was to emphasize their ties to the Communist Party at a time when hysteria over communists in the U.S. was at an all time high during the Cold War and with U.S. troops battling in Korea against forces aided by both the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China.
The Rosenbergs were convicted, sentenced to death and then executed June 19, 1953 despite an international outcry for clemency. Sobell served 17 ½ years of a 30 year sentence.
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The photographer is unknown. The image is an auction find.
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Family members of Melanie Hruby, Jessie Mowrer (left) and Diane Hruby (right) hug each other as Judge Christopher R. Rothgery reads the sentencing of Adam Grimes at the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas in Elyria, Ohio, on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Grimes was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 15 years for the murder of his girlfriend, Melanie Hruby, in 2012.
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An American-Iranian pastor has been sentenced to eight years in an Iranian prison for his Christian faith.
Judge Pir-Abassi, known as Tehran’s “hanging judge,” sentenced Saeed Abedini to eight years in Evin Prison for “Christian activities” in Iran, according to the Washington-based American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which has been representing Abedini’s family and fighting for his release.
Jordan Sekulow, ACLJ’s Executive Director, says the whole case was a sham and hinged on the “evidence” of Abedini’s involvement more than ten years ago in Iran’s house church movement, “which under then-president [Mohammad] Khatami, were not perceived as a threat to Iran.” Despite Iranian law requiring a written verdict, Sekulow says none was given.
“Here’s the troubling reality,” Sekulow said. “A U.S. citizen who has been beaten and tortured since his imprisonment last fall, is now facing eight years in Evin Prison, one of the most brutal prisons in Iran.”
Sekulow is calling on the international community to demand Saeed’s release and says he’s especially troubled that the Obama administration has been silent about the issue. “The response from the State Department and the White House on behalf of this U.S. citizen being persecuted and beaten in Iran for his faith is absolutely abysmal,” Sekulow says. “It is shameful that our government has thus far basically abandoned this American citizen.”
Although spared the death sentence by a judge known for his harsh sentences, Pastor Saeed Abedini now faces a long stretch confinement in one of Iran’s most brutal prisons. Imprisoned and persecuted for his faith, his story is one that should move the hearts of both Christians and Jews and all freedom loving peoples. Pray for Pastor Abedini and his family as they walk through this trial of faith (James 1:1-3) and pray that the U.S. government will intercede on his behalf so that he once again might be free to return to America.
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