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President Barack Obama is seen at a campaign stop for Democratic Senate candidate, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley at Northeastern University in Boston Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010.

Obama was briefed immediately about death of British ex-pat Neil Heywood, whose 'killer may have ...
The Daily Mail Unprecedented: President Obama is taking a personal interest in Mr Heywood's death US President Barack Obama was told of the alleged murder of British businessman Neil Heywood before foreign secretary... (photo: AP)

Accused Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik arrives at the courtroom, in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday April 17, 2012. The anti-Muslim fanatic who admitted to killing 77 people in a bomb-and-shooting massacre is set to take the stand in his terror trial. Anders Behring Breivik will have five days to explain why he set off a bomb in Oslo's government district, killing eight, and then gunned down 69 at a Labor Party youth camp outside the Norwegian capital.

Norway's Breivik demands acquittal or death
Al Jazeera Anders Behring Breivik has said he should be executed or acquitted for killing 77 people in Norway in July last year in what he said was a battle to defend Europe against mass immigration.... (photo: AP / Frank Augstein)

The Milwaukee Art Museum from the north at night. The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is located on Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Milwaukee Art Museum makes proposal to restore War Memorial
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The Milwaukee Art Museum has unveiled a proposed $15 million project that includes a small, glassy new building on the lakefront, the creation of an urban park, a gutting and redesign of its galleries... (photo: Creative Commons / Cburnett)

Gay rights pioneer Lilli Vincenz, 74, right, and her life partner Nancy Ruth Davis, 75, pose intheir home in Arlington, Va., Thursday, May 10, 2012. At the birthplace of the gay rights movement, patrons at New York City's Stonewall Inn said they felt like they were living history.

Gay Marriage – It May Destroy Western Civilization, But It Sure is a Wonderful Fundraiser
CounterPunch It started with lesbian couples in Vermont in the mid-90s, freaked out they’d lose their babies. Vermont Freedom to Marry was born, and is now the most powerful Democratic organization in the state,... (photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin)

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File - A member of the Navy Expeditionary Guard Battalion patrols a corridor in the Camp Delta section of the Joint Detention Group facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The 9/11 trial begins: Why second-class justice harms everyone
Al Jazeera Proceedings are finally underway in the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and four co-conspirators, who stand trial before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay,... (photo: US Navy / PO3 William Weinert)

Anatomy of an American Execution
Al Jazeera In 2010, while making an episode of Fault Lines on the death penalty in the US, Josh Rushing interviewed death row inmate Michael Selsor. It was the only interview Selsor... (photo: AP / Sue Ogrocki)

9/11 trial could take years as accused clam up
DNA India The trial of the five men accused of plotting the September 11 attacks could go on "for years", lawyers for both the defence and prosecution said on Sunday. The... (photo: US Navy / Mark D. Faram)

In this file photo made June 27, 2006, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba.

Guantanamo Bay 9/11 trial 'could go on for years'
The Daily Telegraph The trial of the five men accused of plotting the September 11 attacks could go on "for years" lawyers for both the defence and prosecution both conceded on Sunday. From... (photo: AP / Brennan Linsley)

The global fight to end capital punishment
The Guardian The death penalty is a shameful legacy of colonialism – now British lawyers are fighting to abolish it around the world by representing condemned prisoners in court... (photo: Jose Cruz/ABr)

Chelsea's captain John Terry, second left, lifts the FA Cup with teammate Frank Lampard after they defeated Liverpool in the English FA Cup Final soccer match at Wembley Stadium in London, Saturday, May 5, 2012.

FA Cup final: Chelsea v Liverpool - as it happened
The Observer Didier Drogba scores Chelsea's second. Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty Images 4.08pm: Team news, team news. Who wants some team news? Here you go, Torres is on the bench.... (photo: AP / Tom Hevezi)

9/11 suspects defiant as US court attempts to begin trial proceedings
The Daily Telegraph Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four others accused of planning the 9/11 terrorist attacks have defiantly refused to take part in a disorderly court hearing where they were due... (photo: US Navy / Aaron Peterson)

File - A Sailor assigned to the Navy Expeditionary Guard Battalion assists removal of a soft leg restraint from a detainee as the detainee finishes a class at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo, 30 March, 20110.

With Gitmo hearing, a legal 'circus' resumes
CNN By Larry Shaughnessy The Obama administration's struggle over how to handle the prisoners and prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, enters a new chapter Saturday when a... (photo: US Navy / MCS3 Joshua Nistas)

New York, New York (Sep. 19, 2001) -- "Ground Zero" at the World Trade Center disaster, following al-Qaida's terrorist attack.

9/11 mastermind to face 'trial of the century'
Sydney Morning Herald The self-confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and four co-accused are due to be arraigned on Saturday at Guantanamo Bay, with all facing the death penalty if... (photo: US Navy file/Photographer´s Mate 2nd Class Aaron Peterson)