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An Oregon appeals court overturned the conviction of a man accused of killing his toddler. The appeals court found two Black jurors were improperly dismissed from service. The Oregon Court of Appeals overturned a Portland man’s murder conviction after it found that prosecutors excused the only two Black jurors on the panel because of their […]
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities on Friday captured fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, a top target of U.S. law enforcement who was convicted in the 1985 killing of a DEA agent, an event that transformed the American government’s war on drug traffickers, according to a former U.S. official and Mexican media. Source link
Statement on the 23rd Anniversary of the Murder of Bytyqi Brothers Today marks 23 years since three U.S. citizens, Ylli, Agron, and Mehmet Bytyqi, were executed while in the custody of Serbian special police. Another year has gone by, and the grieving Bytyqi family has found no closure. Another year and the Serbian justice system still has not […]
NEW YORK: An African-American teen executed in 1931 for the murder of a white woman was exonerated by a Pennsylvania court this week, after decades of lobbying by his only surviving sister. Alexander McClay Williams, age 16, was convicted by a white jury in just four hours, and remains the youngest person ever put to […]
The decision “is an acknowledgement that the charges against him should never have been brought,” the statement said By AFP Published: Fri 17 Jun 2022, 7:51 AM An African-American teen executed in 1931 for the murder of a white woman was exonerated by a Pennsylvania court this week, after decades of lobbying by his only […]
Issued on: 16/06/2022 – 22:16Modified: 16/06/2022 – 22:14 New York (AFP) – An African-American teen executed in 1931 for the murder of a white woman was exonerated by a Pennsylvania court this week, after decades of lobbying by his only surviving sister. Alexander McClay Williams, age 16, was convicted by a white jury in just […]
In July 1917, the all-Black 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, traveled by train from Columbus, New Mexico — near the Mexican border — to Houston. They were tasked with guarding the construction of an auxiliary National Guard training facility. The soldiers could not have fully imagined what awaited them. Their assignment to guard Camp Logan […]
US man charged with attempted murder of Justice Brett Kavanaugh BBC California Man Facing Federal Charges in Maryland for Attempted Murder of a United States Judge Department of Justice
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, the woman accused of murdering professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in Austin, was dropped off at the Newark Liberty International Airport a day after Austin police obtained an arrest warrant, the U.S. Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force said Monday in a release. The U.S. Marshals upgraded the Armstrong […]
Black Men Heal co-founder Zakia Williams was deeply moved as she watched a young Black man become emotional while speaking about the mental health toll the past few years have taken on him. “He said, ‘I just want to play basketball without fear of getting shot, I just want to live. I just want to […]