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Overview The death penalty has long come under scrutiny for being racially biased. Earlier in the twentieth century when it was applied for the crime of rape, 89 percent of the executions involved black defendants, most for the rape of a white woman. In the modern era, when executions have been carried out exclusively for murder, […]
From the moment his grandfather woke up in the morning to the moment he laid his head at night, his life was a testament to the goodness of God, said Jason Carter, Jimmy Carter’s eldest grandson, as he took the lectern to deliver a eulogy to his late “Papa.” Jimmy Carter, known to most Americans […]
The U.S. has recorded its first human death from bird flu, a grim milestone that comes as at least 66 cases have been recorded in the country. The patient, who was over age 65 and had underlying medical conditions, was hospitalized in Louisiana in December; the case was considered the country . . .
Daniel Penny was acquitted Monday of criminally negligent homicide in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man with a history of mental illness whose final moments on a New York City subway train were captured on bystander video that set off weeks of protests and drew national attention. The decision, on the […]
With the death of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Sunday, the others who’ve held the country’s highest office have released statements and issued their condolences. Read those statements below. Video above: A look back at the life of former President Jimmy CarterPresident Joe Biden”Today, America and the world lost an extraordinary leader, statesman and […]
NYPD via Reuters New York police released images of a person of interest in the incident, later announcing they had charged him with murder A suspect accused of killing a woman by setting her on fire on a subway train has been charged with murder in a New York court. Sebastian Zapeta allegedly set the […]
Live news: Biden commutes 37 death sentences Financial Times Source link
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A jury convicted two men on Friday of charges related to human smuggling for their roles in an international operation that led to the deaths of a family of Indian migrants who froze while trying to cross the Canada-U.S. border during a 2022 blizzard. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, an Indian […]
A US man who faked his own death and fled the country, leaving behind his family, has been in contact with police in his home state and sent investigators a video to prove that he is safe. Ryan Borgwardt, 45, vanished on 12 August while on a solo fishing trip, the Green Lake County Sheriff’s […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — On the last night of their lives, Jagdish Patel, his wife and their two young children tried to slip into the U.S. across a near-empty stretch of the Canadian border. Wind chills reached minus 36 Fahrenheit (minus 38 Celsius) that night in January 2022 as the family from India set out on […]