Sentences with phrase «justice over the murder»

A Ghanaian man is leading a campaign to bring The Gambia's former leader Yahya Jammeh to justice over the murder of 55 migrants who were mistaken for coup plotters, writes the BBC's Alex Duval Smith.

A Ghanaian man is leading a campaign to bring The Gambia's former leader Yahya Jammeh to justice over the murder...

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While some have been criticized for not giving enough attention to the murder victims, the shows no doubt are contributing to the debate over the role that factors such as race, class, privilege, and (sometimes) plain bad luck can play in matters of criminal justice.

i disagree, it is only justice when capital punishment is hat the hands of the victim, and to many time are murders over look because of a good lawyer (want some Orange juice)

Though its intensity has diminished over the past five months, I suspect that the anger will persist until Osama bin Laden, Mohammed Omar, and every other would «be murder er of Americans is, in the words of President Bush, «brought to justice.»

The Kirchners pushed to restart criminal trials against members of the military junta — for a variety of reasons, prior attempts to bring to justice those responsible for the disappearance, torture and murder of over 30,000 people by agents of the state were first halted and later resulted in amnesty.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out a series of proposals for reforming the state's criminal justice system, in response to heightened tensions over the death of an unarmed Staten Island resident after an encounter with police, as well as the recent murder of two police officers

The court, presided over by Mrs Justice Merley Afua Wood, passed the death sentence last Wednesday after a seven - member jury unanimously found Frimpong guilty on two counts of murder.

The children of late AbdulHakeem Salawudeen who was gruesomely murdered by his wife recently have pleaded for mild justice over their mother.

They were all discharged and acquitted by an Ekiti State High Court presided over by Justice Lekan Ogunmoye who held that the prosecution failed to prove the case of murder against tem beyond reasonable doubt.

In Strong Island, still another Sundance jury prize — winner and a standout of this year's True / False Film Fest slate, director Yance Ford employs direct address and first - person voice - over for an investigation and consideration of both his brother's murder, which took place more than two decades prior, and the ongoing fallout from a failure of justice for Ford's family and friends.

Rules of Engagement) is a green, but very ambitious police officer who desires strongly to follow in his father's footsepts by becoming a detective lieutenant, which he attains by taking partial credit for the infamous Nite Owl murders, where three men barge into a diner and kill all of the inhabitants inside, including a former police officer named Stensland (Beckel, Blue Streak) Stensland's former partner is Bud White (Crowe, The Quick and the Dead), a rough - and - tumble cop as loyal as they come, but also willing to do the things that Exley is not, namely, to cross over the line of the law to see that justice is served.

First and foremost is his guilt over his inability to bring Marzin to justice and his belief that he was in some way responsible for the murder of Jessica's daughter, due to plans with her that he cancelled at the last minute.

The uproar over the murders of black men such as Michael Brown and Eric Garner by police officers are leading criminal justice reform advocates to push legislatures and governors to enact new policies, including the creation of independent prosecutors for cases involving cops as well as the rewrite of use - of - force laws that allow rogue cops to get off scot - free.

In The Massey Murder, author Charlotte Gray offers her colourful take on the crime, the trial, Denison himself, the workings of the justice system of the day, and the Toronto over which Denison so firmly presided for 44 years:

He says that any path to justice will require talking about residential schools; the Sixties Scoop; contemporary child welfare policies executed by organizations like Child and Family Serivces; racial profiling by police and other ways in which Indigenous people are criminalized by the so - called justice system; the ongoing tragedy of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls; all of the forms of oppressive regulation of Indigenous peoples by the Indian Act over the last 150 years.

Justice Thomas entered convictions for second degree murder relying on the constructive murder provision of the Criminal Code that was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada over 25 years ago.

Just a little over a week after the man charged with second - degree murder in her death was acquitted of that crime, hundreds of people gathered at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto on Saturday demanding justice for Tina Fontaine and others like her.