Author Archive: Satish Sekar

A Flawed Hero

Author: Satish Sekar May 17, 2017 0 Comments

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (July 4th 2013. Updated on May 15th 2017) Hero or Anti-hero Simón Bolívar, dubbed by many the Liberator, was undoubtedly one of the great leaders of the nineteenth century independence movement. He occupied pride…
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Alexandre Pétion, André Rigaud, Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá, Bolivia, Ecuador, Francisco de Miranda, Henri Christophe, Hugo Chávez, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Jean-Pierre Boyer, Manuel Piar, Napoléon, Pascal Sabès, Saint-Domingue, Simón Bolívar, Toussaint Louverture, Venezuela

Revolutionary Trigger

Author: Satish Sekar May 16, 2017 0 Comments

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (May 15th 2017) The Origins of Strife As with many revolutions, the aims evolved in practice. Haiti’s is no different. And like most it was full of contradictions. It was inspired the martyrdom of…
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Alexandre Pétion, Cécile Fatiman, Dutty Boukman, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Jean-Baptiste Chavannes, Saint-Domingue, Vincent Ogé

A Fair Cop – The Ultimate Price

Author: Satish Sekar April 15, 2017 0 Comments

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (April 14th 2017) Lessons Learned? The USA restored the death penalty after a four year break in 1976. In fact, there had been no executions since 1967 – the Supreme Court ruled the statutes…
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Articles, Capital Idea

Donna Mills, Frank Coppola, Furman v Georgia, Gary Gilmore, Gregg v Georgia, James Power, Joseph Miltier, Karen Coppola, Muriel Hatchell, Northern Ireland, Olive Turner, Peyton Hatchell, the Supreme Court, Thomas Montgomery, Utah, Virginia, William Glass

Killer Cops – The Failure of Deterrence

Author: Satish Sekar April 14, 2017 0 Comments

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (April 14th 2017) Deterrence? Article 50 has been triggered, but it has emerged that many Brexit supporters want more than tighter immigration controls – they want the return of capital punishment too, but what…
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Articles, Capital Idea

China, Death Penalty, deterrence, execution, Handan, James Robertson, Malik Mumtaz Qadri, Mohamed Mustafa Tabet, Morocco, Salmaan Taseer, Wang Xiwen

Wasted Opportunities

Author: Satish Sekar April 2, 2017 0 Comments

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (March 13th 2017) Icons Emmy Musonda is not the only former sporting icon to miss out on Zambia’s first international tournament. The Chipolopolo are one of only two AFCON winners never to have hosted…
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A Sporting chance of after care

Beston Chambeshi, Changwe Kalale, Emmy Musonda, Green Eagles, Nyambe Mulenga, Power Dynamos, Satchmo Chakawa, Sepp Blatter, Thabo Senong, U-20 AFCON, Zambia, Zesco United

“Satish is a dedicated investigative journalist who worked hard to investigate the background to the jailing of the Cardiff Three for the 1988 murder of Lynette White. The success of their appeal against their convictions is largely down to his hard work. He wrote the story of this case and his subsequent campaign to have the case reinvestigated in his book ‘Fitted In: The Cardiff Three and the Lynette White Inquiry’. I wanted to write about the forensic aspects of the case in my book Cold…

Liz Porter Sunday AgeAustralia

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“Satish is a dedicated investigator with a passion for justice, both to correct miscarriages to absolve the innocent, and to identify and bring the true perpetrator(s) to account. His dogged determination and indefatigable efforts to explore overlooked or disregarded facts and possibilities, and to publish his findings publicly, have made a significant contribution to the Criminal Justice System in Britain and abroad.”

Robert (Bob) Parsons (Forensic Chemist/Alcohol Toxicologist, Indian River C…

Bob Parsons

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