Too 'dead' for jail? A US court is not persuaded

An inmate serving life for murder in the US state of Iowa offered a novel legal appeal, saying he should be released because he "died" four years ago. The Iowa Court of Appeals was unmoved, however, by Benjamin Schreiber's bid for freedom ruling that the argument -- however original -- was "unpersuasive." Schreiber, who was handed a whole life term without the possibility of