April 3, 2015
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Breaking News
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Alabama inmate Anthony Ray Hinton walked out of prison Friday as a free man after 30 years on death row. He told a gathering of family and supporters that “the sun does shine.”
Hinton, 59, wiped away tears as he lamented about the painstaking fight to clear his name in the 1985 fatal shootings of two Birmingham-area fast-food restaurant managers.
His capital murder convictions were finally tossed Thursday after years spent arguing that the revolver that police say was used in the slayings didn’t match the evidence at the scenes.
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April 2, 2015
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Crime
Ala., amazon, Birmingham, business, Business News, Granddaughter Run to Death, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, Jessica Mae Hardin, Joyce Garrard, Joyce Garrard Granddaughter, Joyce Garrard Life Sentence, Joyce Garrard Sentence, Joyce Garrard Trial, Joyce Hardin Gerrard, medicine, mental-health, Patrick Blackwelder, research, Reuters, Savannah Hardin, Savannah Hardin Run to Death, Science, Science News, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, the death penalty, travel, vacation, Woman Runs Granddaughter to Death
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An Alabama jury recommended on Thursday that a woman convicted of running her 9-year-old granddaughter to death as punishment for lying about having eaten chocolates spend the rest of her life in prison, prosecutors said.
Joyce Garrard, 50, was found guilty of capital murder last week in the 2012 death of Savannah Hardin. After finding her guilty, the jury was charged with determining whether to recommend a life sentence or the death penalty.
The judge in the case will ultimately decide whether to accept the jury’s recommendation or sentence Garrard to death at a hearing scheduled for May 11.
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** FOR USE AS DESIRED WITH YEAREND COPY ** FILE — This 2006 photo provided by Patrick Blackwelder shows his former stepdaughter, Savannah Hardin. Authorities have charged Savannah Hardinâs paternal grandmother, Joyce Hardin Gerrard, and stepmother, Jessica Mae Hardin, with murder in her death. Police say the 9-year-old girl was run to death as punishment for lying, making it one of the top stories in Alabama for 2012. (AP Photo/Patrick Blackwelder) | ASSOCIATED PRESS
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February 18, 2014
Mohenjo
Medical
A.I. is a huge pop show, Alabama, Alabama native, amazon, American Idol, Billboard, Birmingham, Black Voices News, business, Business News, David Foster, Eric Benét, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, Lalah Hathaway, medicine, mental-health, music industry, pop culture, research, Ruben Studdard, Ruben Studdard American Idol, Ruben Studdard Unconditional Love, Ruben Studdard Weight Loss, Science, Science News, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, travel, Unconditional Love, vacation, Video
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Ten years after becoming the winner of “American Idol’s” second season, Ruben Studdard has released his 6th studio album this month entitled, “Unconditional Love.”
The 11-track opus finds the Birmingham, Alabama native collaborating with the likes of Eric Benét, Lalah Hathaway, and world renown producer-musician, David Foster. And though the 35-year-old crooner is celebrating his ten year “American Idol” anniversary in May, he has no qualms about the show being referenced as his claim to fame.
“For a boy from Alabama who had no idea of how to enter the music industry after getting no responses to the demos I was sending in, it was a great blessing,” he said during a recent interview with Billboard. “It’s a six-month music industry crash course. But what you learn quickly after leaving the show is that the industry is and isn’t ‘American Idol.’ A.I. is a huge pop show, but the urban market is completely different. Still, the show was first class from the time I stepped off the plane.”
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