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A Black inmate at a Georgia jail accused a corrections officer of choking him with a leg restraint and making a racist comment while three other officers watched, according to a lawsuit. Tremar Harris sued three corrections officers with the Appling County Sheriff’s Office in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia on […]
Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment. The state said the method would be humane, but critics called it . . .
Atmore, Alabama CNN — Alabama has put to death Kenneth Smith, the first death row inmate known to die by nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of execution in the United States.
ATMORE, Ala. — Preparations were underway Thursday to put an Alabama man to death using nitrogen gas — the first execution of its kind in the nation — as legal challenges were waged in the final hours attempting to halt the untested method. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58 . . .
An inmate stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times last week at a federal prison in Tucson, Ariz., the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona said on Friday in announcing attempted murder charges. The inmate, John Turscak, 52, who is accused of stabbing Mr. Chauvin with an improvised knife on Nov. 24, told investigators that he had been […]
Federal inmate number 14289-077 is baffled whenever the television in his Texas prison blares out assertions from supporters of Donald Trump that the former president has been victimized by a two-tiered system of justice. “I’ve heard all these Republicans say, ‘Well, we don’t care if Mr. Trump did wrong, we’re going to support him anyway,’” […]
WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday halted the scheduled execution of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, whose cause drew support from the state’s Republican attorney general after an investigation shed new light on evidence relating to the 1997 murder Glossip was convicted of commissioning. The justices acted after a […]
By Michael Tarm, AP Legal Affairs Writer When the U.S. prisons director visited the penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, this past week, she stopped by the federal death row where Bruce Webster is in a solitary, 12-by-7 foot cell, 23 hours a day. Webster’s not supposed to be there. A federal judge in Indiana ruled […]
A portrait of Irvo Otieno, who died during an encouter with law enforcement in Petersburg, in this handout picture from an unknown location released on March 16, 2023. (Reuters) Published: 17 March ,2023: 07:46 AM GST Updated: 17 March ,2023: 07:54 AM GST Seven US police officers and three hospital workers have been charged with […]
A video released by a Tennessee prosecutor shows the death of a Black man in a Memphis jail after he was beaten during a confrontation March 3, 2023, 3:19 PM ET • 3 min read MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Black man having a psychotic episode died in custody last fall after Memphis jailors punched, kicked […]