Alabama spared a man from execution who never fired the shot
A death sentence can rest on a fact that sounds almost impossible: the condemned person did not destroy anyone. For more than three decades, Charles “Sonny” Burton lived on Alabama’s death row for a 1991 robbery in Talladega that ended…
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Chained Skeleton Near Jerusalem Is Forcing a Rethink of Early Christian Women
“The absence of an AmelY unique spectra enabled us to classify the remains as very probably those of a female,” researchers wrote after examining a single tooth from a chain-bound burial near Jerusalem. That cautious sentence carries unusual weight, because…
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