There are 25 people on Alabama Death Row, despite their juries asking for life sentences. Gov. Kay Ivey could change that. A jury said they should live. A judge in Alabama decided they would die anyway. Now, it’s up to Gov. Kay Ivey to decide who the state should listen to. In Alabama, a jury’s decision wasn’t always the final word. And even though the state fixed that nine years ago, it’s still honoring old cases where a judge set aside the work of the jury—the only state in the nation to do so.
Every resident of a building on Tehran’s Sheikh Hadi Street was arrested after several stones were thrown from its rooftop at repressive forces during the January protests. Months later, four of those detained were sentenced to death, and the Supreme Court has now rejected the appeal of one of the defendants. Information obtained by IranWire confirms that Branch 9 of the Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of Mohammad Reza Majidi-Asl, putting him at immediate risk of execution.