Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A 73-year-old man who has spent nearly four decades on death row is now ineligible for capital punishment and might be granted a new penalty hearing.
Samuel Howard was sentenced to death in 1983, after he was convicted of robbing George Monahan of $2 and fatally shooting him in the head in 1980.
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a New York court had recently vacated Howard’s previous lone violent felony conviction, which meant that it negated execution as a possible punishment for his killing of George Monahan.
The septuagenarian was initially given the death penalty based on two aggravating circumstances, one of which had been invalidated by the Nevada high court before the New.
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