Freed Death-Row Inmate Savors Freedom, Slams Bush
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Ernest Willis, the eighth exonerated  inmate to walk off of Texas' death row, touched his wife for  the first time in his early hours of freedom and criticized  President Bush on Thursday as one who had not cared about his  innocence.
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Eric Volz is struggling to embrace the freedom he now has after his conviction for killing an ex-girlfriend in Nicaragua was overturned. He didn't know he would be released until it happened and still recalls the horror of his sentencing when he and a U.S. embassy official had to escape a mob. "It was one of the darkest days of my life," he told CNN's Anderson Cooper. "They were out for blood."
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Mirza Tahir Hussain, the British man released from a Pakistani jail after spending 18 years on death row, spoke of how he turned to Islam for solace as his situation worsened in prison, in an interview published in The Times.
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President Bush said today that he had used his power of clemency to commute the 30-month sentence for I. Lewis Libby Jr., who was convicted of perjury in the C.I.A. leak case.
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A death row inmate convicted of murdering seven people was spared a lethal injection when federal courts declined to overrule a stay, frustrating the state&#039;s plan for back-to-back executions.
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Few Americans thought Libby should get off the hook. But Bush had little to lose in granting clemency
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One of four dissidents freed by Havana has spoken out about the deplorable conditions in Cuban prisons.
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Some reaction to President Bush's decision Monday to commute the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, sparing him from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case.
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Aaron Patterson's account of being convicted of two murders and tortured by police helped persuade a governor to set him free and empty Illinois' death row.
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"There's no greater joy than sitting on the beach without any clothes on"  George W. Bush has often expressed his admiration for the yearning for freedom in Communist East Germany that led to the collapse of the Berlin Wall on his father's watch 18 years ago. via Reuters UK
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Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to terrorism, at times with deadly ...
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A Briton released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay told Europe's top human rights body Friday he was beaten, shackled, kept in a cramped cage and fed rotten food as part of "systematic abuse" in American custody.
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US death penalty opponents hope that Democrat John Kerry, a former prosecutor who opposes executions, wins the presidency from George W. Bush, who strongly supports the death penalty.
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'It's good to be home,' says Scot who spent 21 years on death row in America
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WASHINGTON - Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to terrorism, at times with deadly consequences.    At least two are believed to have died in fighting in Afghanistan, and a third was recaptured during a raid of a suspected training camp in Afghanistan, Lt...
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Myanmar's second most prominent political prisoner said Saturday he felt like he had "awoken from dreamland" after he returned home from nearly 16 years in jail.
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BOGOR, Indonesia -- Addressing a nation with more Muslims than any other country, and a young democracy where many are fiercely protesting US policies in Iraq and the Middle East, President Bush said yesterday that he welcomes criticism as the hallmark of freedom, "a sign of a healthy society."