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Obtaining a compassionate release for a prison inmate is a process that varies from country to country (and sometimes even within countries) but generally involves petitioning the warden or court to the effect that the subject is terminally ill and would benefit from obtaining aid outside of the prison system, or is otherwise eligible under the relevant law.
In May 2008, the Supreme Court upheld the 2003 federal law Section 2252A(a)(3)(B) of Title 18, United States Code that criminalizes the pandering and solicitation of child pornography, in a 7–2 ruling penned by Justice Antonin Scalia. The court ruling dismissed the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit's finding the law ...
The law, part of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, applies to pornography (defined as an image "of such a nature that it must reasonably be assumed to have been produced solely or principally for the purpose of sexual arousal") which is "grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character" and portrays "in an explicit and realistic way" any of the following:
In response, the Attorney General's office filed an appeal with the Texas Supreme Court, a move that automatically pauses the judge's injunction and allowed the law to go into effect on September 1, 2023, as originally planned. [211] On June 28, 2024, the Texas Supreme Court upheld the law. [212] Alabama: Governor Kay Ivey: April 8, 2022 [213]
Abolishing Fort Ringgold Military Reservation, Texas January 4, 1911 232 1280 Transferring New Orleans, Louisiana, Land Office to Baton Rouge January 6, 1911 233 1281 Natchitoches Land District, Louisiana, Abolished and Land, Business and Archives Pertaining Thereto, Transferred to Baton Rouge Land District January 6, 1911 234 1282
Egypt: Article 291 of the Egypt Penal Code, adopted in 1904 and inspired by a French provision, allowed any individual who committed sexual assault to avoid penalty if he entered into marriage with the female victim; it was eventually repealed in 1999. [12] [13] [14] 1905. Argentina: University preparatory secondary education open to females. [15]
In the 17th century, immigration from Ireland to the Thirteen Colonies was minimal, [19] [20] confined mostly to male Irish indentured servants who were primarily Catholic [20] [21] and peaked with 8,000 prisoner-of-war penal transports to the Chesapeake Colonies from the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in the 1650s (out of a total of ...