The United Nations on Thursday urged outgoing United States President Donald Trump to repeal his designation of the Yemeni Houthi movement as a terrorist organization, saying the move could push the ravaged country, already suffering a monumental humanitarian crisis, over the edge.
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has said he supports a bill introduced by state legislators to end capital punishment in the state, US media reported.
State legislators in Virginia’s House and Senate on Wednesday introduced bills that would abolish the death penalty and convert existing capital sentences to life sentences without parole, ABC News reported.
Later on Wednesday, Virginia Governor Northam said in his annual State of the Commonwealth address that he supports efforts to abolish Virginia’s death penalty, citing racial injustices in the criminal justice system and the possibility of the state condemning innocent people.
This is known to have happened at least once in modern history. Earl Washington, a Black man, was sentenced to death in 1984 and “spent 18 years in prison in Virginia, including nine-and-a-half of them on death row. But he didn’t do it”, Northam said in his address.
Red 2.2.1
Yep in principal on the approach, not so much the spin and politics of it all , the team of 5m thing ( vomit inducing) , canonisation of certain individuals, smugness of nz in contrasting other countries without realising how much advantage we have to most other nations, releasing not so complementary reports on health sector performance very late and after the election, attempts to make this a left and right issue Apart from that on board
Drowsy M. Kram 2.2.1.1
Red, what makes you think that there s a (general?) lack of realisation of the advantages (
e.g. remote island, delayed risk of exposure, small well-educated population, competent leaders and dedicated public health workers focussed on protecting the health of citizens) that NZ has wrt this global pandemic?
TEHRAN: Iran wants to remove a clause from a 2015 nuclear deal that allows for UN sanctions against it to be reinstated, a senior official has said, hinting Tehran would be open to negotiations on.