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As clock ticks toward another Trump presidency, federal death row prisoners appeal for clemency

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President-elect Donald Trump’s return to office is putting a spotlight on the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, which houses federal death row. In Bloomington, a small community of death row spiritual advisors is struggling to support the prisoners to whom they minister.  Ross Martinie Eiler is a Mennonite, Episcopal lay minister and member of the Catholic Worker movement, which assists the homeless. And for the past three years, he’s served as a spiritual advisor for a man on federal death row.

Malaysia: 14 Death-Row Prisoners Get Pardon, Says Hishamuddin

14 prisoners who received the death sentence were pardoned between 2000 and 2009, including 2 who were freed.

Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said 7 of them were now serving life imprisonment, while the sentence of 4 others had been reduced to 20 years' jail.

2 of the prisoners who were freed by the state Pardons Board, included an inmate whose sentence was reduced to life imprisonment, he said in a written answer to a question by Karpal Singh in the Dewan Rakyat Tuesday.

He said that based on Regulation 114 of the Prisons Regulations 2000, a prisoner under death sentence may petition the Yang di-Pertuan Agong or the Ruler or the Yang di-Pertua Negeri of the state where the offence was committed.

"For death row prisoners who want to file the petition, they will be assisted by the Prisons Department," he added.

Source: BERNAMA, June 22, 2010

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