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Louisiana Jim Crow jury prisoner Brandon Jackson granted parole | Prison

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Brandon Jackson, a Louisiana man who was in prison for more than 25 years on a non-unanimous jury verdict, was released on parole on Friday. Jackson was the subject of an investigation by The Lens and Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines into the legacy of Louisiana’s split jury law, under which people could be convicted of a crime and sentenced to life in prison with as many as two of 12 jurors voting for acquittal. Read More...

The brothers grim | History books

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The ObserverHistory books This article is more than 19 years oldReviewThe brothers grimThis article is more than 19 years oldThe senior historian of the Soviet Union presents a powerful and original analysis of the warring between Lenin and Stalin and the collapse of the Soviet empireThe Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin Verso £25 pp416 Where did it all go wrong? It's the question which comes to every old Marxist, whether or not he or she were part of the world communist movement in the 20th century: what was the virus which eventually deformed the Bolshevik revolution and the Soviet Union and all the communist parties, ruling or not, which followed the Soviet model? Read More...