* A celebrated death penalty case: the planned execution of Troy Davis, a case that has received considerable international attention, and which clearly appears to be a miscarriage of justice, has just been stayed for the third time, each time just before a scheduled execution. As the second link there asked, must this not be called torture?
* An inside view of the life of fast food delivery men in New York. If they’re robbed, their employers make them pay the money back – and that’s only the start of the abuses. Seems the fair trade movement needs to start working at home.
* And finally a less dramatic, but sad, account from small town America – environmental degradation and the lack of government support means a sympathetic grocery store owner is the only thing that stands between many people and hunger.
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