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Richard Branson

Published on 18 March 2021

Business leaders standing up against the death penalty

The death penalty is in retreat. And business leaders are joining the growing movement to end it. Today, I’m pleased to join a global group of executives, supported by the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice, in launching the Business Leaders’ Declaration Against the Death Penalty, highlighting the case for abolition, calling on governments to end the practice, and inviting business leaders everywhere to join the effort. Our goal is to build a global business movement for abolition, ready to raise its collective voice whenever needed.

I’ve never made a secret of my opposition to the death penalty. I think it is inhumane and barbaric, fails to deter or reduce crime and is disproportionately used against minorities and other vulnerable and marginalised groups. Capital punishment cases are also prohibitively expensive, especially when compared to the cost of a life sentence. In the US and elsewhere, the death penalty is an enormous waste of public resources, especially when alternatives are available.

Truly terrifying, however, is the death penalty’s appalling rate of error. Since 1976, when the US Supreme Court lifted a previous ban on executions, 185 innocent people have been freed from US death rows. That’s 185 personal stories of suffering, agony, injustice, and lives shattered. Stories like that of Anthony Ray Hinton, who spent 28 excruciating years on Alabama’s death row, convicted for a crime he didn’t commit. Why would anyone think a system so flawed and broken is a good idea?

https://www.virgin.com/branson-family/richard-branson-blog/business-leaders-standing-up-against-the-death-penalty

PUBLISHED: 14:30, 28 July 2019

Jeffrey Epstein and the doomed dome: Pedophile Island goes quiet as owner awaits sex trafficking charges while new photos show the golden top to mysterious temple is gone

The golden dome that formally sat atop Jeffrey Epstein's temple on Little St James is gone in recent photos

A local told DailyMail.com that it went missing around the time that Hurricane Irma hit the island in 2017

It is believed that Epstein had removed the dome prior to the Category 5 storm making landfall

The temple has been of great interest to members of the QAnon community, who had been talking about the island long before Epstein's current arrest

The arrest of Jeffrey Epstein on federal sex trafficking charges earlier this month has turned his two properties off the coast of St Thomas into ghost islands.

New drone footage and photography shows the state of the islands, including the massive amounts of development over on Great St. James and his shockingly bare temple on Little St. James.

Photos obtained by DailyMail.com show the blue-and-white striped structure is suddenly without its golden dome.

One local told DailyMail.com that they were under the impression that Epstein had his staff remove the dome ahead of the hurricane.

Irma, which was a Category 5 storm when it made landfall on the island, is still the most powerful hurricane to ever hit the Atlantic region.

The dome never went back up however and now the temple sits unadorned and striped on the island.

The temple has been of great interest to members of the QAnon community, who had been talking about the island long before Epstein's current arrest or Julie Brown's explosive expose in The Miami Herald.

Many members of the community believe that Epstein hid young girls he allegedly enslaved in underground rooms below the temple and other parts of the island.

There is no concrete evidence to support that claim, but the community's belief that a famous actress was recruiting young victims for Epstein is not completely implausible.

A number of Epstein victims did in fact go on to become actresses Brown told Alec Baldwin in an interview back in April.

Epstein doubled his property holdings in January 2016 when he paid $18 million for Great St James a few years back.

That 162-acre property is located next to Little St. James, the 71.5-acre island he purchased in 1998 for $7.95 million.

Epstein's plans for Great St. James include a barge dock, two homes, cottages, an amphitheater, gardens, a marine electrical cable, solar array and generator, storage building, security building, work shed, machine shop, and an 'underwater office and pool.'

That barge and a few completed structures, as well as construction equipment, are visible in aerial images of the island.

This work has been done despite the fact that only the construction of a flagpole and repair of cisterns has been approved on the island.

Epstein is behind bars awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges +9

Epstein is behind bars awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges

And yet next door, his temple remains domeless.

Epstein has erected 'No Trespassing' signs throughout around almost all of Great St. James due to the area's popularity with tourists.

Local laws make all land below the tide or bush lines public property, so Epstein cannot legally kick people off those lands, but he is being vigilant about making sure no one wanders onto his property.

He continues to make Little St. James his primary residence, but last month the helicopter that shuttles the millionaire and his guests to and from the airport was listed for sale online, with an asking price of $1.8 million

Epstein also sold one of his private jets in June. His other was seized when he was arrested earlier this month after landing back on US soil following three-week trip to Paris.

In total, Epstein's properties are valued at close to $150 million.

There is the Paris bolthole where he spent the weeks before returning to the US and getting arrested on the tarmac as his plane touched down at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.

The $9 million pied-a-terre is located on one of the nicest blocks in the City of Lights, and Epstein traveled there frequently, often spending a few months at the apartment each summer.

Halfway around the world, just outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, sits Epstein's country estate.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7294665/Jeffrey-Epstein-doomed-dome-Pedophile-Islands-mysterious-temple-lost-golden-dome.html