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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.

Saudi Arabia: man convicted of murdering family beheaded

November 19, 2008: a Saudi Arabian man was beheaded by the sword after being convicted of murdering his mother, two sisters and other relatives while on drugs.

Mohammed bin Faris al-Mutairy was found guilty of the shooting deaths in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency. Also murdered were his uncle and his father's wife.

Source: Agence France Presse, 19/11/2008

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