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WASHINGTON 鈥?The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a new court hearing for a black Texas prison inmate who claims improper testimony about his race tainted his death sentence.The justices voted 6-2 in favor of inmate Duane Buck. Buck had tried for years to get federal courts
stanley cup to look at his claim that his rights were violated when jurors were told by a defense expert witness that Buck was more likely to be dangerous in the future because he is black.Chief Justice John Roberts said in his majority opinion that the federal appeals court that heard Buck case was wrong to deny him a hearing.In Texas death penalty trials, one of the 8220 pecial issues jurors must consider whe
stanley cup n deciding punishment is whether the defendant they ;ve convicted would be a future danger.Roberts wrote that the testimony of Dr. Walter Quijano was potent evidence. Dr. Quijano testimony appealed to a powerful racial stereotype 鈥?that of black men as violence prone.Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. Having settled on a desired outcome, the court bulldozes procedural obstacles and misapplies settled law to justify it, Thomas said.Lead counsel Christina Swarns L for Texas death row inmate Duane Buck not pictured hugs Buck stepsister Phyllis Taylor in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in D.C. in
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BRASILIA, Brazil AP 鈥?The coronavirus ; omicron variant starting to barrel across South America is pressuring hospitals whose employees are taking sick leave, leaving facilities understaffed to cope with COVID-19 third wave. A major hospital in Bolivia largest city stopped admitting new patients due to lack of personnel, and one of Brazil most populous states canceled scheduled surgeries f
yeezy or a month. Argentina federation of private healthcare providers told the AP it estimates about 15 percent of its health workers currently have the virus.READ MORE: Clap, don ;t chant: China aims for Zero COVID ; OlympicsThe third wave is affecting the health team a lot, from the cleaning staff to the technicians, with a high percentage of sick people, despite having a complete vaccination schedule, said Jorge Coronel, president of Argentina medical confederation. While symptoms are mostly mild to moderate, that grou
stanley cup p needs to be isolated.It wasn ;t supposed to be this way: South America vaccine uptake was eager once shots were available. About two-thirds of its roughly 435 mil
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Russians marched on Moscow Sunday to commemorate the shooting death of an opposition leader killed two years ago after agg
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stanley cup utin.Boris Nemtsov, Russia former deputy prime minister, was killed on Feb. 27, 2015, on a bridge outside the Kremlin. He was shot in the back while walking with his girlfriend. Five Chechen men are on tri
stanley cup al for his murder, charges they deny.On Sunday, thousands of demonstrators carried Russian flags and banners in Moscow. Some held cardboard Russian flags with bullet holes in them, according to the Associated Press. Others chanted Russia will be free and Putin is war.It very important that after two years people continue to come out and show their solidarity with the ideas for which Boris Nemtsov fought for and gave his life, said Ilya Yashin, an opposition activist who was Nemtsov friend, to the Russian news agency Interfax.Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov C attends a rally to support a vote electing the Coordinating Council of the Russian opposition movement in Moscow, October 20, 2012. Opponents of President Vladimir Putin say elections in Russia are rigged. Photo By Sergei Karpukhin/ReutersDuring the march, opposition leader Mikhail Kasyanov was attacked by an unknown assailant who reportedly threw a green dye in his face.聽Several people who demonstrated were arrested聽by police.Organizers put the number of protesters in the tens of thousands wh Qbpf Russian shelling cuts off power again in liberated Kherson region
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