Week In Review

The well-deserved death sentence imposed by a jury on a vicious double murderer has been unjustly overturned by a Philadelphia judge, 28 years after the crimes, and I have directed my assistants to file an immediate appeal with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

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A judge blocked Pennsylvania’s divisive voterID requirement from going into effect on Election Day, delivering a hard-fought victory to Democrats who said it was a ploy to defeat President Obama and other opponents who said it would prevent the elderly and minorities from voting.

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After a face to face appeal by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. Monday, the President of Gambia agreed to release two American citizens into Rev. Jackson’s custody who were serving long prison sentences in the West Africa nation and allowed them to return to the United States with Jackson on Tuesday.

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A new report from the Schott Foundation for Public Education finds that only 52 percent of Black male and 58 percent of Latino male ninth-graders graduate from high school four years later, while 78 percent of White, on-Latino male ninth-graders graduate four years later.

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Election turnout among young people of color, including African-Americans, Latinos and Native Americans, may drop by nearly 700,000 voters in states with new photo ID laws, a decline potentially impacting presidential contests in the battleground states of Florida and Pennsylvania…

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By a 4-2 decision, the state Supreme Court has remanded the Voter ID law back to Commonwealth Court for a new hearing. It was the lower court’s decision to uphold the law earlier this month that led to the Supreme Court appeal.

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From the still-unsolved slaying of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey more than 15 years ago to the disappearance and killing of 2-year-old Caylee Anthony, the public has watched with rapt attention as many cases involving young children unfolded, often over many months.

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Retired boxing great Muhammad Ali visited Philadelphia to receive the Liberty Medal, an award recognizing his longtime role as a fighter outside the ring for humanitarian causes, civil rights and religious freedom. The honor will be presented on Thursday during a ceremony at the National Constitution Center…

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In the warm-up to the Democratic National Convention, both parties jockeyed for the economic high ground Monday, with Republican Mitt Romney labeling Labor Day “another day of worrying” for too many Americans anxious about finding a job.

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Jay-Z and more than 30 of his musical friends, shut down the Ben Franklin Parkway for the first ever “Made in America Festival.” Officials from the City of Philadelphia, Live Nation and the Police Department stated days before the two-day festival, that it would be something like a “small city” inside.

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