Yeah it was the quality photoshopping that jumped out for me. The policy is just a side issue to that
Because we don’t have the death penalty in this country. Something which the families of the many people that have been wrongly convicted are probably quite glad about
Someone just pointed out on Twitter that it’s likely the photo was because someone at Con HQ searched for something along the lines of UK youth…and didn’t realise UK also stands for University of Kentucky!!!
Just in case anyone fancies buying the sweatshirt the lad's wearing in the image... please log in to view this image
Since reported it was from a visit in Truro. Probably from Primark, but a very odd image to use (with the Purdue one as well)
Not odd at all, when he gets his green card back, and is off to the US like he planned to do, he'll feel right at home. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
There's an interesting follow up to that in the thread. (August 28, 2022) Miami, Florida - Remember the judge who recognised the defendant as her classmate from middle school? After the first bittersweet reunion, this not-so-viral second reunion melts hearts equally much, if not more. Years ago, we all had seen this video somewhere on the Internet where two middle school buddies meet after decades in a courtroom. That was not the kind of reunion anyone of us would hope for. Nevertheless, that incident changed the life of the verdict completely. Let’s go back a little and start from the start. This video got hundreds of millions of combined views on YouTube only, forget other platforms. This courtroom camera records an interesting incident where Judge Mindy Glazer was going through her usual job but suddenly spots one verdict who happens to be her classmate in middle school. If you watched the video, you know how ignorant Arthur Booth (the defendant) was acting in the beginning, like he had no regrets for what he did. What happened after that, I think all of us know. Booth burst into tears so bad and each word that was coming out of his middle school classmate’s mouth was like the realisation of all the years he had wasted and the people he had let down. “This was the nicest kid in middle school. I used to play football with him… and look what has happened,” she said in the video while Booth was submerged in regret and broke down in tears. This is the story we all have heard. Many of us have cried watching the video too, I’m sure. Not a Disney ending, right? But this one, fortunately, has one. After spending 10 months in jail, Booth was released early as a part of a court program. But was it different from his past where he was continuously making rounds of court and jail for charges of burglary, grand theft, fleeing the cops and resisting arrest among more? Turns out it was. It was different this time. Growing Booth was the brightest kid in one of the best schools in Miami. But soon he fell for all the vicious addictions including gambling and drug addictions that consumed his bright future and ambitious dreams. He wanted to become a neurosurgeon. He went to prison several times. And this time could have been no different and things would have remained the same if not for Mindy. After serving 10 months in jail, when Booth was released, he told CBS Miami: “She’s an inspiration and motivation to me. Mindy is incredible.” The second reunion was far more emotional than the first one. Turns out Arthur had changed a lot in those 10 months. He read books and became interested in business. He decided to start all over again. Though he had lost his dream of becoming a surgeon, he didn’t want to live in the regret of his past. On the day of the release, Mindy was also present along with Arthur’s family and cheered him up and wished him a bright future. Arthur promised he would never end up in prison again and would give up gambling and drugs forever. He kept his word. It’s been more than 6 years and life has taken a complete U-turn for Arthur. He’s in a far better condition. He is now a manager of a pharmaceutical company and is living a lawful life, as he’d promised to his former classmate. “Take care of your family. Try to get a job. Stay clean. You are going to do something good for somebody else,” Mindy told Arthur after he was released. To which Arthur replied: “You better believe it. You better believe it.” Full Article: http://vritant.substack.com/p/remember-the…
In September 1956 after drinking heavily at a bar in New York City, Thomas Fitzpatrick made an intoxicated barroom bet that he could travel from New Jersey to New York City in 15 minutes. At 3 a.m. he stole a single-engine plane from the Teterboro and flew without any lights or radio before landing on St. Nicholas Avenue near 191st Street in front of the bar where the bet was made. The New York Times called it a "fine landing" and a "feat of aeronautics". For his illegal flight, he was fined $100 after the plane's owner refused to press charges. In October 1958 just before 1 a.m., Fitzpatrick again stole another plane from the same airfield and landed on Amsterdam and 187th after another bar patron disbelieved his first feat. For his second stolen flight, judge John A. Mullen sentenced him to six months in prison. When asked why did had undertaken the 2nd flight Fitzpatrick told the police "he had pulled off the second flight after a bar patron refused to believe he had done the first one" Fitzpatrick was a Marine during the Korean War and received a Purple Heart. He has three sons and was married to his wife, Helen, for 51 years working as a steamfitter. He died in 2009 at the age of 79. Fitzpatrick has a mixed drink named after him for his feat called the "Late Night Flight"
