Brazil farmer arrested again in American missionary's murder
Source: Associated Press
Police in Brazil have again arrested a farmer convicted of ordering the 2005 assassination of American missionary Dorothy Stang
(The Associated Press) FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2009 file photo, a banner of American missionary Dorothy Stang hangs during the World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil. Regivaldo Pereira Galvão was detained in April 2019 after Brazil’s supreme court overruled a May 2018 injunction that had blocked him from serving his sentence in the Stang killing. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)
By The Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — Apr 18, 2019 2:30 PM
Police in Brazil have again arrested a farmer convicted of ordering the 2005 assassination of American missionary Dorothy Stang.
Regivaldo Pereira Galvão was detained this week after Brazils supreme court overruled a May 2018 injunction that had blocked him from serving his sentence in the killing. He was taken to prison Thursday.
Back and forth rulings in the judiciary have mostly kept Galvão out of prison since he was convicted in 2010 of hiring two ranch hands to kill Stang.
She worked as an environmental activist throughout Brazil, often in opposition to powerful agricultural and ranching interests.
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Regivaldo Pereira Galvão
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Supreme Court ordered Regivaldo, known as Taradão, to prison in February of this year
Apr.18.2019 2:05PM
The Pará Civil Police took into custody farmer Regivaldo Pereira Galvão, who was condemned for ordering the killing of Dorothy Stang, a Catholic missionary and agrarian reform militant. The crime occurred in a rural settlement of the Anapu municipality (681 km from Belem) in 2005.
The Supreme Court ordered Regivaldo, known as ‘Taradão,’ to prison on February 19. He was condemned to 30 years in prison in April of 2010 but this was reduced to 25 years by the Superior Tribunal of Justice (STJ).
A February 12, 2004 file photo shows Missionary sister Dorothy Stang in Belem, northern Brazil. (BRAZIL OUT) REUTERS/Imapress/AE/Carlos Silva - Reuters
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The juridical imbroglio favored Regivaldo because there are disagreements about the legality of his arrest in the second instance. He was only able to stay free until now because in May of last year Minister Marco Aurélio Mello granted habeas corpus under the argument that the law did not allow arrest in case of a criminal action that did not have the final and unappealable decision.
Missionary Dorothy Stang was born on May 7, 1931, in the city of Dayton, Ohio. She became a Brazilian citizen and was involved in the struggle for the implementation of sustainable development projects in the Amazon region.
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2019/04/police-take-into-custody-farmer-who-ordered-the-murder-of-missionary-dorothy-stand-in-2005.shtml
(A google search for Dorothy Stang will show her fallen body, just murdered, lying on the floor of the forest where the two hired hitmen accosted her on horseback and shot her down. Absolutely heart-breaking. She was very tiny, and alone.)