BREAKING: With Hours Remaining, Mississippi Stays Execution Of Man Whose DNA Was Never Tested

BREAKING: With Hours Remaining, Mississippi Stays Execution Of Man Whose DNA Was Never Tested: pHours before his scheduled execution at 6 p.m. today, the Mississippi Supreme Court has issued a stay to Willie Jerome Manning, whose death sentence was upheld in a 5-4 court ruling last week even though the state refused to test available DNA evidence, and the FBI deemed major pieces of evidence in the case “unscientific” [...]/p

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Pentagon: Estimated 26,000 Sexual Assaults In Military Last Year

Pentagon: Estimated 26,000 Sexual Assaults In Military Last Year: pJust one day after the Air Force’s chief of sexual assault prevention was arrested for sexual assault himself, a new Pentagon report shows a sharp increase in the estimated number of assaults in the military annually. The report from the Department of Defense’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office for Fiscal Year 2012 found a [...]/p

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REPORT: The U.S Has The Highest First-Day Infant Death Rate In The Industrialized World

REPORT: The U.S Has The Highest First-Day Infant Death Rate In The Industrialized World: pEach year, about one million infants around the world die on the same day they’re born. That figure includes about 11,300 U.S. babies — the highest first-day infant mortality rate of any other country in the industrialized world, according to a new report from Save the Children. In fact, the United States’ rate of first-day [...]/p

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