Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Jamie and Gladys Scott, often referred to as the Scott sisters, were convicted of orchestrating a 1993 armed robbery in Forest, Mississippi. Both sisters received double life sentences, an outcome that was criticized as too severe by a number of civil rights activists and prominent commentators on the grounds that the sisters had no previous criminal record and the robbery netted no more than eleven dollars. Their conviction was upheld by the Mississippi Court of Appeals in 1996, and the U.S. Supreme Court denied both their petition for appeal in 1997 and an appeal to vacate the conviction in 1998. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour denied a petition for clemency in 2006.On December 29, 2010, Governor Barbour suspended their sentence on the condition that Gladys donate a kidney to her ailing sister. The two women were released from prison on January 7, 2011. They moved to Pensacola, Florida, and it is anticipated that they will remain on parole and pay a supervision fee to the state of Florida for the rest of their lives."@en }
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- Scott_sisters abstract "Jamie and Gladys Scott, often referred to as the Scott sisters, were convicted of orchestrating a 1993 armed robbery in Forest, Mississippi. Both sisters received double life sentences, an outcome that was criticized as too severe by a number of civil rights activists and prominent commentators on the grounds that the sisters had no previous criminal record and the robbery netted no more than eleven dollars. Their conviction was upheld by the Mississippi Court of Appeals in 1996, and the U.S. Supreme Court denied both their petition for appeal in 1997 and an appeal to vacate the conviction in 1998. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour denied a petition for clemency in 2006.On December 29, 2010, Governor Barbour suspended their sentence on the condition that Gladys donate a kidney to her ailing sister. The two women were released from prison on January 7, 2011. They moved to Pensacola, Florida, and it is anticipated that they will remain on parole and pay a supervision fee to the state of Florida for the rest of their lives.".