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Troy Davis Nephew De’Jaun Davis-Correia on what’s next

originally by: TheRoot
published: 8th February 2012

Antone De’Jaun Davis-Correia was more than proud to be selected as one of The Root’s 25 Young Futurists last year; he was relieved. He saw it as validation of his work to abolish the death penalty. But since receiving that honor in February of 2011, the teen, who goes by “De’Jaun,” lost his grandmother, his uncle was executed and his mother died of cancer.

De’Jaun, 17, of Savannah, Ga., was born into the debate about capital punishment. His uncle, Troy Davis, was already on death row for the August 1989 murder of police officer Mark MacPhail.

13 February 201217 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Supreme Court ruling welcomed by rights organisations

Press Release by: INQUEST
8th February 2012

Hospitals must ensure that they take appropriate steps to prevent voluntary psychiatric patients from taking their own lives, according to a landmark judgment handed down today by the Supreme Court.

The unanimous ruling, which has been welcomed by leading mental health and human rights organisations, held that Pennine Care NHS Trust had a duty under article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights to protect the right to life of Melanie Rabone, and failed in this duty when she took her own life in April 2005.

Paul Farmer, Chief Executive of Mind said:

Today’s judgment recognises that a positive duty is owed towards patients with mental health problems at times when they are most at risk of harm. The law now applies whether or not a patient has been formally detained.

13 February 201217 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Second funeral held for Christopher Alder

all credits: BBC News
published: 9th February 2012

The funeral of a man whose body was discovered 11 years after his family thought they had buried him is understood to have been held. Christopher Alder’s body was discovered in a Hull mortuary in November 2011. South Yorkshire Police is investigating the circumstances that led to another body, thought to be that of Grace Kamara, being buried in his grave at the city’s Northern Cemetery.

The body in Mr Alder’s original grave will be exhumed later this month. The mistake was discovered when the body of Ms Kamara was about to be released from the mortuary for burial last year and Mr Alder’s body was found instead.