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In a 1990 report, the non-partisan U.S. General Accounting Office found “a pattern of evidence indicating racial disparities in the charging, sentencing, and imposition of the death penalty.” The study concluded that a defendant was several times more likely to be sentenced to death if the murder victim was white. This has been confirmed by […]
Police secure an area around a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket where 10 people were killed in a shooting on May 14, 2022. Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP, File hide caption toggle caption Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP, File Police secure an area around a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket where 10 people were killed in a […]
The Justice Department will pursue the death penalty for the White gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo, NY supermarket in 2022, prosecutors said in a court filing Friday. The decision marks the first time Attorney General Merrick Garland has authorized the use of the federal death penalty in a new case. It […]
Payton Gendron was sentenced to life in prison without parole for domestic terrorism and 10 counts of first-degree murder. Photo: Derek Gee via REUTERS. US prosecutors will seek the death penalty against the avowed white supremacist who killed 10 black people at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store . . .
Getty ImagesAll 10 victims of the Buffalo, New York shooting were black The US federal government is seeking the death penalty for a white gunman who killed 10 people in a racially-motivated 2022 shooting. The US Department of Justice, in a Biden administration first, said capital punishment is warranted due to the shooting’s effect on […]
12 January 2024, 19:51 GMT Updated 1 hour ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, All 10 victims of the Buffalo, New York shooting were black The US federal government is seeking the death penalty for a white gunman who killed 10 people in a racially-motivated 2022 shooting. The US Department of Justice, in a […]
Robert Cianflone/Getty Images Sweden will play Japan in the quarterfinals. CNN — The US’ participation in the Women’s World Cup is over, ending in the cruelest of defeats.
By Annabelle Liang Business reporter 1 hour ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The weight and purity of American Silver Eagle coins are guaranteed by the US government A US court has ordered two precious metals companies to pay almost $146m (£115m) after more than 500,000 American Silver Eagle coins went missing.
In the last 30 years, exoneration cases have exposed the very real shortcomings of the American legal system. The Innocence Project has represented innocent people who were wrongly convicted of murder and condemned to death in cases that were compromised by police and prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective assistance of counsel, eyewitness misidentification, unreliable forensic evidence, racial […]
April 19 Reuters) – Seagate Technology Holdings (STX.O) has agreed to pay a $300 million penalty in a settlement with U.S. authorities for shipping over $1.1 billion worth of hard disk drives to China’s Huawei in violation of U.S. export control laws, the U.S. Department of Commerce said on Wednesday.