US troops in Iraq will get immunity from prosecution, bolstering fight with Isis | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/04/us-troops-in-iraq-will-get-immunity
US troops in Iraq will get immunity from prosecution, bolstering fight with Isis | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/04/us-troops-in-iraq-will-get-immunity
Judge throws out teen’s murder conviction 70 years after his execution - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/12/17/judge-throws-out-teens-murder-conviction-70-years-after-his-execution/?tid=sm_fb
When George Stinney Jr. was executed for the killings of two white girls in 1944, he was so small that the straps of South Carolina’s electric chair didn’t fit him properly, and he had to sit on a book for his electrocution.
Stinney was just 14 years old at the time and became the youngest person put to death in the United States in the 20th century. But Wednesday, 70 years after the fact, Circuit Judge Carmen Mullen tossed out his conviction, which was reached after a trial that didn’t even last a full day and was never appealed. As the Associated Press noted, it took Mullen “nearly four times as long to issue her ruling as it took in 1944 to go from arrest to execution.”
“I can think of no greater injustice,” Mullen wrote in her 29-page order, the AP reported.
Judge Overturns A 14-Year-Old’s Murder Conviction – 70 Years Too Late - LiberalAmerica.org
▻http://www.liberalamerica.org/2014/12/17/judge-overturns-a-14-year-olds-murder-conviction-70-years-too-late
In today’s announcement, Judge Carmen Mullins ruled that there was lack of evidence in the trial, and that Stinney wasn’t provided adequate representation in the courtroom, either.
“Given the particularized circumstances of Stinney’s case, I find by a preponderance of the evidence standard, that a violation of the Defendant’s procedural due process rights tainted his prosecution.”
The murder victims were reportedly last seen speaking to Stinney and his sister, and were later found dead from blunt head wounds. After the boy was arrested by local police on that “last seen with” basis alone, Stinney’s father was fired from his job at the local lumber mill, and his family was forced to flee the town due to threats.
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SC Teen George Stinney Jr. Exonerated 70 Years After Execution - The Root
▻http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/12/s_c_teen_george_stinney_jr_exonerated_70_years_after_execution.html
It’s been 70 years since George Stinney Jr., a 14-year-old South Carolina boy, faced the electric chair for the 1944 murders of two young white girls in Alcolu, but his name has finally been cleared after a circuit court judge tossed his murder conviction, NBC News reports.
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Black 14-year-old exonerated 70 years after South Carolina put him to death | US news | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/17/black-14-year-old-exonerated-70-years-after-south-carolina-put-him-to-d
More than seven decades after South Carolina executed 14-year-old George Stinney, a judge has thrown out his conviction and cleared his name.
Stinney was accused of killing two white girls, Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, seven, who were found dead in a ditch on the black side of the racially segregated town of Alcolu, South Carolina, in March 1944. In the Jim Crow era of the South, Stinney was tried, convicted and executed within 83 days in the small mill town.
Freezing cells and sleep deprivation: the brutal conditions migrants still face after capture
In a week of outcry over the Senate’s report on CIA torture, human rights groups say harsh treatment of migrants still meted out the on US border
#migration #USA #Etats-Unis #torture #frontière #détention_administrative
41 men targeted but 1,147 people killed: US drone strikes – the facts on the ground
▻http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone-strikes-kill-1147?CMP=share_btn_fb
For the death of a man whom practically no American can name, the US killed 128 people, 13 of them children, none of whom it meant to harm.
A new analysis of the data available to the public about drone strikes, conducted by the human-rights group Reprieve, indicates that even when operators target specific individuals – the most focused effort of what Barack Obama calls “targeted killing” – they kill vastly more people than their targets, often needing to strike multiple times. Attempts to kill 41 men resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1,147 people, as of 24 November.
Ici ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/315590
(mais sans les bricolos du bouton FB ;-)
et là aussi
►http://seenthis.net/messages/315441
(mais, là ce n’est pas le même article)
41 men targeted but 1,147 people killed: US #drone strikes – the facts on the ground
Cf. ►http://seenthis.net/messages/315441
La peinture murale (٢٧) reprend le nombre de 27 personnes non identifiées tuées pour 1 individu ciblé.
Avec une infographie très parlante
Second leaker in US intelligence, says Glenn Greenwald
Citizenfour, new film on spying whistleblower Edward #Snowden, shows journalist Greenwald discussing other source