Amy is the Trump Administration moves to restore the federal Death Penalty, we will speak with sister Helen Prejean, leading Death Penalty activist, the Academy Awardwinning film dead man walking was based on her life. But first we speak to Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Sonia Nazario about how corruption, viviolence, and u. S. Foreign policy are fueling the migrant crisis. Mostly fleeing some of the most violent countries honored, honduras, guatemala, el salvador. In recent years i focused on the most of those who are coming here from Central America immigrant children, kids who are trying to get into the United States and flee the violence. Amy all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Flights have resumed at Hong Kong International airport after it was effectively shut down for two days due to a takeover by prodemocracy protesters. Tuesday saw new clashes between protesters and police forces, with sever
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Quijano good evening. Im Elaine Quijano. The f. B. I. And department of justice are investigating the death of Jeffrey Epstein. One day after his apparent jailhouse suicide, investigators and lawyers have more questions than answers about what happened inside that new york jail at dawn saturday. Heres mola lenghi. Reporter the bureau of prisons said 66yearold Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell early saturday. Staff in Lower Manhattan at the Metropolitan Correctional Center tried to revive him according to the associated press. Attorney general william barr said epsteins death raises serious questions. Just two weeks ago epstein was found semiconscious on the floor of his jail cell there. Sources tell cbs news that following his apparent suicide attempt, epstein told authorities he feared powerful people might be trying to prevent him from cooperating with authorities. The New York Times reported sunday epstein had been taken off suicide watch and was supposed to have be
Mark Epstein, the brother of the deceased financier and sex trafficker, has made repeat calls for further investigation into the scandalous suicide, feeling AG Bill Barr failed to properly look into it.
The brother of the late Jeffrey Epstein continues to push for the real story of what happened at the Manhattan Correction Center the night the sex-offender died.