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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

World’s oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia | Archaeology | The Guardian

The painting at Leang Tedongnge in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known cave painting: a life-sized picture of a wild pig that was made at least 45,500 years ago in Indonesia. Source: World’s oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia | Archaeology | The Guardian

Japan to ban non-resident foreigners after finding new COVID-19 variant – UPI.com (Reverting to ultra-nationalism over a mostly internal problem and not using science first)

Japan plans to suspend entry of all non-resident foreigners and deport foreign residents if they violate quarantine regulations. Source: Japan to ban non-resident foreigners after finding new COVID-19 variant – UPI.com

Convicted by False Forensic Evidence, Eddie Lee Howard, Jr. Exonerated From Mississippi Death Row After 26 Years

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Eddie Lee Howard, Jr., convicted and sentenced to death based on the false forensic testimony of a since disgraced prosecution expert witness, has been exonerated after nearly 26 years on Mississippi’s death row. He is the 174th

former death-row prisoner exonerated in the U.S. since 1973 and the sixth in Mississippi.

The Mississippi Supreme Court overturned Howard’s conviction in August 2020, 26 years after he was first sentenced to death for the 1992 murder and alleged rape of an 84-year-old white woman. In an 8-1 decision, the court held that discredited bite-mark testimony, exculpatory DNA evidence, “and the paucity of other evidence linking Howard to the murder” entitled him to a new trial. Howard was freed pending retrial in December 2020 (see picture).

On January 8, 2021, the trial court granted a motion by Lowndes County District Attorney Scott Colom to dismiss all charges against Howard. “After reading the supreme court’s opinion, reading the trial transcripts from the two trials, reviewing the investigative files and case files of the case, I decided that we didn’t have even remotely close to sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Howard beyond a reasonable doubt,” Colom said.

Howard was represented by lawyers from the Mississippi Innocence Project and the national Innocence Project. The Mississippi Innocence Project’s founding director, Tucker Carrington, called Howard’s exoneration “a bittersweet victory.” “We’re thrilled that Mr. Howard will finally have his freedom and some semblance of justice,” Carrington said, “but he has lost nearly three decades of his life facing execution because the system failed. His case reminds us that there is still much work to be done to support Mr. Howard and others like him who have lost precious years of their lives to wrongful convictions.”

Ken Langone blasts Trump, Capitol rioters, vows to support Joe Biden

  • Billionaire Ken Langone called the Capitol Hill riot a “disgrace” and urged Americans to rally behind President-elect Joe Biden.
  • “I think the biggest mistake anybody is going to make is try and rationalize what happened last week, what the president did and what that crowd did,” Langone told CNBC on Wednesday.
  • “I feel betrayed,” said Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot who has donated over the years to Republicans.

Source: Ken Langone blasts Trump, Capitol rioters, vows to support Joe Biden