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.
Death row murderer set to die tomorrow is 'unaware of his own execution'
dailystar.co.ukdeath row for killing his baby daughter is to be executed, despite his lawyers arguing he is unaware of this fact. Benjamin Cole, who killed his daughter in 2002, is scheduled to be executed on October 20 at 10am central time, 4pm in the UK.But his lawyers have filed a suit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma with the hope of the court ordering a competency hearing.READ MORE: Brits who expect 's*** to hit the fan' enquire about bunkers as Putin 'goes nuclear'According to US law, those deemed not competent cannot be executed.Attorney Emma Rolls said: "The state courts’ acknowledgement that experts have reached conflicting opinions about Ben Cole’s competency should have been all they needed to order a full competency hearing."Earlier this week, Cole's team also applied to the US Supreme Court for a stay of execution.
This was denied on Wednesday.Oklahoma argues that Cole is mentally fit and that he merely has a personality disorder and is manipulative.Warden of Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Jim Farris, has refused to initiate a competency hearing and cites an evaluation by state doctor Dr Scott Orth.Orth is said to have had a 150-minute evaluation with Cole in which the inmate fully cooperated, though other evaluations have said the opposite.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here .In a ruling on October 4, Pittsburg County District Judge Mike Hogan disagreed with the arguments of Cole's lawyers and turned down a request for a competency trial.
He did this despite saying that expert reports on Cole' mental state are "conflicting".The trial would have allowed a jury to decide if Cole was fit to be executed.During the examination cited.
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