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From 2010 to 2015 I was incarcerated in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, the Tennessee prison that houses death row for the men’s system. On one side of a gate, 250 of us lived in a “support staff” unit working maintenance, landscaping, kitchen service or whatever else kept the facility operational. On the other side of the gate were maximum-security prisoners and those in protective custody, and a unit just for the condemned.

UAE killer has 18 days to escape death in RAK

Defendant is unable to pay Dh500,000 diya to victim’s relatives

A court in Ras Al Khaimah has given a 28-year-old Emirati man until the end of this month to pay diya (blood money) to his victim’s family or he would be executed.

The killer’s accomplice, who was also sentenced to death, has managed to meet the deadline to pay the same sum to the victim’s relatives and has the death sentence against him dropped. But the second defendant has asked for a grace period.

The defendant, identified as NA, and his accomplice were both sentenced to death by a criminal court in the northern emirate after they were convicted of murdering their friend during a fight in late 2013.

An appeals court upheld that verdict but asked the defendants to settle the case with the victim’s relatives by paying them diya in line with Islamic law.

“The killer’s accomplice managed to pay Dh500,000 diya but the other convict is still unable to raise the sum…..the appeals court has given him until the end of this month or he faces execution,” the Arabic language daily Al Bayan said.

Source: Emirates 24/7, June 12, 2014

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Photographing the Community on Tennessee’s Death Row