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• Zeal for death penalty circumvents advocates' efforts to end executions

  27-12-2014 18:37
  
  Despite botched executions states still exploring old methods as alternatives
  Historian: in the US ‘violence is a part of frontier culture’Witness: ‘After 43 minutes, Clayton Lockett was declared dead’Lethal injections: a brief history of botched US executionsOklahoma’s last execution went so badly that the state tried to cancel it before it was over. With the inmate writhing while the lethal drugs seeped into his body, his executioners drew the viewing gallery curtains, concealing wha
  
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• European laws let a killer driver stay in the UK - Express.co.uk

  27-12-2014 13:33
  
  Express.co.uk
  European laws let a killer driver stay in the UK
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  The case will add to concerns that European law is hampering attempts to deport foreign criminals. A Home Office spokesman said: “We firmly believe that foreign nationals who commit crimes in the UK should be deported. “Last year we removed more than ...
  
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• Ricky Tomlinson: ‘I’m a whingeing scouser, and I will whinge until they’re made to pay’

  27-12-2014 10:00
  
  In 1973, Ricky Tomlinson spent Christmas in prison after picketing a strike. More than 40 years later, one of our best-loved actors says that the fight to clear the names of the Shrewsbury 24 faces a final hurdle: government secrecyIt is more than 40 years since Ricky Tomlinson spent Christmas in prison. In December 1973 the actor was a young painter and decorator, married with two small sons, when he was sentenced to two years for his part in picketing a national construction workers’ st
  
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