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Age: 66

Conviction: Shooting car dealer John Henry in 1974, then demanding money. Henry died of his wounds.

Arrived on death row: Feb. 4, 1976

Years awaiting execution: 41

Age: 66

Conviction: Shooting car dealer John Henry in 1974, then demanding money. Henry died of his wounds.

Arrived on death row: Feb. 4, 1976

Years awaiting execution: 41

Age:59

Conviction:Killing Ertis Block, 76, during a gas station robbery in December 1976.

Arrived on death row:Oct. 26, 1977

Years awaiting execution:40

Age:59

Conviction:Killing Ertis Block, 76, during a gas station robbery in December 1976.

Arrived on death row:Oct. 26, 1977

Years awaiting execution:40

Age:61

Conviction:Shooting and killing store clerk Joe L. Williams on Oct. 14, 1977.

Arrived on death row:Sept. 12, 1978

Years awaiting execution:39

Age:61

Conviction:Shooting and killing store clerk Joe L. Williams on Oct. 14, 1977.

Arrived on death row:Sept. 12, 1978

Years awaiting execution:39

Age:68

Conviction:Shooting and killing a police officer in Laredo while hauling more than 500 pounds of marijuana on July 31, 1976.

Arrived on death row:May 18, 1979

Years awaiting execution:37

Age:68

Conviction:Shooting and killing a police officer in Laredo while hauling more than 500 pounds of marijuana on July 31, 1976.

Arrived on death row:May 18, 1979

Years

Age:60

Conviction:Killing and robbing a cab driver who was taking him from El Paso to Juarez on Feb. 27, 1979.

Arrived on death row:Feb. 26, 1980

Age:60

Conviction:Killing and robbing a cab driver who was taking him from El Paso to Juarez on Feb. 27, 1979.

Arrived on death row:Feb. 26, 1980

Age:60

Conviction:Shooting and killing James McCarble during a robbery in Houston on April 25, 1980.

Arrived on death row:July 24, 1980

Age:60

Conviction:Shooting and killing James McCarble during a robbery in Houston on April 25, 1980.

Arrived on death row:July 24, 1980

Age:57

Conviction:Shot and killed police detective Daryl Wayne Shirley, who was serving a fugitive warrant on Williams on Aug. 28, 1982.

Arrived on death row:May 6, 1983

Age:57

Conviction:Shot and killed police detective Daryl Wayne Shirley, who was serving a fugitive warrant on Williams on Aug. 28, 1982.

Arrived on death row:May 6,

Age:70

Conviction:Shot and killed 40-year-old Herman Chavis during a robbery of a bar on July 13, 1983.

Arrived on death row:July 18, 1984

Age:70

Conviction:Shot and killed 40-year-old Herman Chavis during a robbery of a bar on July 13, 1983.

Arrived on death row:July 18, 1984

Age:65

Conviction:Convicted in the November 1983 shooting death of 55-year-old Ollie F. Childress Jr., a Wilson County deputy sheriff.

Arrived on death row:Jan. 7, 1985

Age:65

Conviction:Convicted in the November 1983 shooting death of 55-year-old Ollie F. Childress Jr., a Wilson County deputy sheriff.

Arrived on death row:Jan. 7,

Age:58

Conviction:Shooting and killing two grocery store employees during a robbery in December 1985.

Arrived on death row:Dec. 11, 1986

Age:58

Conviction:Shooting and killing two grocery store employees during a robbery in December 1985.

Arrived on death row:Dec. 11, 1986

Age:51

Conviction: Shooting and killing Myrtle Ruby with a .22 caliber rifle during a break-in.

Arrived on death row:April 15, 1987

Age:51

Conviction: Shooting and killing Myrtle Ruby with a .22 caliber rifle during a break-in.

Arrived on death row:April 15, 1987

Age:61

Conviction:Killing 63-year-old Raymond Garner while robbing him and stealing his van on Aug. 18, 1984.

Arrived on death row:May 14, 1987

Age:61

Conviction:Killing 63-year-old Raymond Garner while robbing him and stealing his van on Aug. 18, 1984.

Arrived on death row:May 14, 1987

Age:56

Conviction:Killing civil rights attorney Fred Finch in Dallas in March 1986.

Arrived on death row:May 14, 1987

Age:56

Conviction:Killing civil rights attorney Fred Finch in Dallas in March 1986.

Arrived on death row:May 14, 1987

Age:59

Conviction:Shooting and killing 38-year-old Georgia Rollins and 2-year-old Keith Emmanuel Rollins in Houston on Nov. 12, 1986.

Arrived on death row:June 25, 1987

Age:59

Conviction:Shooting and killing 38-year-old Georgia Rollins and 2-year-old Keith Emmanuel Rollins in Houston on Nov. 12, 1986.

Arrived on death row:June 25,

Age:51

Conviction:Rape and murder of 34-year-old Johnnie Mae Gray in Fort Worth in May 1987.

Arrived on death row:July 6, 1988

Age:51

Conviction:Rape and murder of 34-year-old Johnnie Mae Gray in Fort Worth in May 1987.

Arrived on death row:July 6, 1988

Age:51

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Court papers:'Utterly unqualified' attorney used Wikipedia to defend death penalty inmate - Chron.com

Speaker of Parliament, Halimah Yacob, is thinking of running for president.

This has caused quite a stir in the ongoing presidential race, ahead of the September election.

Some analysts quickly proclaimed her the strongest candidate in the field.

But while they may be unanimous in their support of a potential Halimah Yacob run (save for one), there has been a little feud brewing online for nearly a week now.

It started on July 12 on Wikipedia, with this edit:

Race.

This was what was there prior to this change:

No race.

Lets call the group of people who edited this, Team Edit.

Cool.

Now, everything was hunky dory, with a few edits here and there, till July 16.

Which is the date Halimah Yacob was quoted in the press as saying she was giving serious thought to running for President.

For some reason, this lead to a re-edit of her Wikipedia page.

For reference, here are the edits that were made to the entry during the initial July 13 edit:

And they were swiftly changed back to this:

Which had been the category pre-2017.

Well call the group of people wanting to revert the article back to what is was Team Stay.

Over right?

Not quite.

Since July 16, more than 30 edits have been made on the article, and their talk page.

Most of it having to do with those two categorisations.

Team Edit argues that Halimah was indeed of Indian descent, owing to her Indian-Muslim father, who had unfortunately passed away when she was young.

Team Stay insisted that that claim was spurious, and that there were no credible sources backing the claim.

These two screenshots are a nice summation of their argument

Team Edit

Team Stay

Here are the some of the sources that Team Edit had put forth, both in the Wikipedia page, as well as the talk page.

However, members of Team Stay insisted that these were not enough, or credible.

And now, the Wikipedia entry appears to have been locked.

And it appears Team Stay hastriumphed:

Aftermath

Now we might just be a small online news site from Singapore, and Wikipedia is a goliath of information.

But it appears to us that Madam Speaker could very well be both an Indian and Malay.

And you could just edit the entry to look like this:

Oh well.

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4 real life versions of comic book superpowers you used to read about in your childhood

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Top photo via Halimah Yacobs Facebook page

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There's an epic battle going on now over one detail in Halimah ... - Mothership.sg (registration)

Speaker of Parliament Mdm Halimah Yacobs Wikipedia page appears to have been edited recently. Her page now does not show that she is a Singaporean politician of Indian descent as it previously did.

Her page may have been spruced up in anticipation of the upcoming Presidential election which Mdm Halimahis considering contesting.

The presidential election this year has been reserved for Malay candidates.

There has been wide speculation about whether Mdm Halimah qualifies since she is an Indian Muslim, whose father is of Indian origin.

This was disclosed in an ST article in 2013 when Halimah was selected to be the new Speaker of Parliament after her predecessor, Michael Palmer, resigned from politics due to his marital affair with a PA woman.

In the article, itmentioned: Her (Halimahs) Indian-Muslim father was a watchman who died when she was eight years old.

In fact, news of Halimah becoming Singapores first woman speaker also made its way to India.The Hindudescribed her as an Indian-origin politician.

It has been revealed that despite her ancestry, Mdm Halimah has been certified as a Malay by the Malay Community Committee at least three times in 2001, 2006 and 2015 when she was fielded as a Malay minority candidate during the general elections.

It is a requirement for minority candidates contesting general elections toto be certified as a member of his or her respective ethnic community.

If she chooses to contest the presidential election set for September, Mdm Halimah will be required to certified as a Malay candidate once again, by afive-member panel that will assess whether prospective presidential candidates belong to the Malay race.

Perhaps Mdm Halimahs Wikipedia page was edited to avoid claims and speculation that she is unfit to run in the presidential race, even though she is a certified Malay. The deletion of her ancestry, however, may have backfired as netizens circulating the photo have taken the edits as evidence that Mdm Halimah is trying to bury her origins.

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Did Halimah Yacob delete info about Indian descent from Wikipedia page? - The Independent

Wikipedia writers in Mangaluru setting up their own library The Hindu The focus of Karavali Wikimedians is to write for Tulu, Kannada and Konkani Wikipedia. According to U.B. Pavanaja, admin of Tulu and Kannada Wikipedia, it is the first such library owned by a body of Wikipedia writers and editors in the country. With ...

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Wikipedia writers in Mangaluru setting up their own library - The Hindu

MONTREAL More than 1,000 people are expected to attend the annual conference of Wikimania, which is being held in Montreal this year, from Aug. 9 to 11.

One of those taking part will be Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, who took part in a question-and-answer session with The Canadian Press ahead of the event. Here are excerpts from the exchange:

CP: Why was Montreal selected this year?

JW: We hold Wikimania every year. It's our flagship event where we bring together volunteers from all around the world. We have a process whereby we have bids from various local communities as to why we should have Wikimania in the city. Montreal was chosen because they had the strongest bid and that was very good. Obviously, there's a lot of excitement around the first time we've had Wikimania in a francophone region.

CP: Given the phenomenon of fake news and the fact Wikipedia's content comes from members, administrators and contributors, how do you ensure quality control?

JW: Fake news has been primarily a problem of Facebook in that people see something that looks like a real news site and it's something alarming or it's exciting to them and they share it with their friends, and they share it and share it and share it and it passes from person to person to person amongst people who aren't particularly sophisticated consumers of news. Whereas the Wikipedia community is incredibly sophisticated, very media savvy...We've had very little impact of that kind of fake news.

CP: More and more people and public figures are being harassed online and are seeing their reputations attacked. What is Wikipedia doing to withdraw such pages?

JW: This is something that we're really very focused on. One of the things that I've always prided myself on is that Wikipedia is a community about knowledge, it's about a positive experience, it's about charity work. People give of their time. We take a very hard line on trolling and harassment...Like every website that's open to the public, you always have a few people who come on who are problematic."

CP: Wikipedia saw the light of day in 2001. Back then, not everyone was convinced of the reliability of the information being provided. How has the public's perception changed over the years?

JW: A very strong core value of Wikipedia is to be of quality. We've always said we wanted to be like a traditional encyclopedia quality or better. And obviously in the early days we weren't that...Over the years, people added more and more information and better sources. And of course, we learned a lot as a community. We've written huge policy guidelines and gotten a lot of experience about what kind of thing is useful to the reader, what kind of thing is a good source versus a weak source. So we've just matured over the years. Obviously, we're always careful to point out that Wikipedia is far from perfect. There are still mistakes in Wikipedia and that's something we're very diligent about. We don't want to get complacent.

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Question-and-answer session with Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales - Times Colonist