"The big picture is that the police are always held accountable for what elected officials cant provide for the people for failed infrastructure and failed policy," retired Baltimore police officer Leon Taylor told Slate.
Date: May 03, 2015
Category: U.S.
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Wilder Trainer Mark Breland Wants Bronze Bomber To "Stab" Stiverne
of Brooklyn? He paused. And some more. "I don't know," he said, with a soft chuckle. Tyson, Boweand what about, he offered, Leon Taylor. Wait, who now? "We used to spar and we didn't like it, because we couldn't show off on each other. He went to camp with Michael Spinks, and they sent him home."
Date: Jan 16, 2015
Category: Sports
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Ninth execution in Missouri this year in what activists say was racially biased case
With Leon Taylors death by lethal injection, 2014 ties 1999 for having the most executions in a year in Missouri. The execution came amid racial tension in the state over the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.In a just world, Leon Taylor never would have been sentenced to death, said Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP). Only through a lethal combination of racial bias, legal loopholes and prosecutorial misconduct can an African-American
Date: Nov 19, 2014
Category: U.S.
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Missouri man executed for cold-blooded murder of gas station attendant
obert there for Taylor's judgment as the single juror. Then this 'changed man' Leon Taylor will realize the hell like the hell on earth Robert's daughter and the rest of his family has been living through, knowing the man who killed him has lived 20, almost 21, additional years of his pathetic life.
Date: Nov 19, 2014
Category: U.S.
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Ninth execution in Missouri this year in what activists say was racially biased case
With the backdrop of Ferguson, its astonishing that Governor (Jay) Nixon can fail to take seriously real and justified concerns with racial fairness in Leon Taylors execution and others that have already taken place, said Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolis
Governor Nixon denied Mr. Leon Taylor clemency shortly before his execution on November 19th. In September, he denied clemency for Mr. Earl Ringo. In each case, his statement announcing his decision made no mention of the fact that both African American men had been sentenced to death by all-white j
Date: Nov 19, 2014
Category: U.S.
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Missouri Executes Death Row Inmate Leon Taylor for 1994 Killing
Fifty-six-year-old Leon Taylor was executed early Wednesday. With Taylor's death, 2014 ties 1999 for having the most executions in a year in Missouri. Taylor shot worker Robert Newton to death in front of Newton's 8-year-old stepdaughter during an April 1994 gas station robbery in Independence, Miss
Leon Taylor, 56, was pronounced dead at 12:22 a.m. at the state prison in Bonne Terre, minutes after receiving a lethal injection. With Taylor's death, 2014 ties 1999 for having the most executions in a year in Missouri.
Date: Nov 19, 2014
Category: U.S.
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University of Kent - Masters in Law (LLM), College of Law - Bloomsbury - PG Dip Legal Practice Course, University of Kent - LLB Hons, Mid Kent College F & HE - DipHE Social Work