Prisoners
As Clayton Lockett lay on an execution table in Oklahoma in 2014 awaiting his death, medical officials struggled to gain access to a vein to administer a lethal injection. They inserted needles in his arms, his neck, his chest and eventually his groin, where they mistakenly struck an artery. The prison warden later described it […]
Salah Al-Ejaili near his home in Sweden, in an undated photo. ‘It has taken a very long time to get here, but we got here,’ he said. Photograph: Josefine Stenersen/The Guardian The first trial to contend with the post-9/11 abuse of detainees in US custody begins on Monday, in a case brought by three men […]
US News By Nicholas McEntyre Published Feb. 24, 2024, 3:48 a.m. ET A Virginia couple is feared dead after three escaped prisoners stole their docked yacht from a docked marina in the Caribbean and fled to another island.
MIAMI (AP) — The United States freed a close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in exchange for the release of 10 Americans imprisoned in the South American country and the return of a fugitive defense contractor known as
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Leonard Glenn Francis, the fugitve defense contractor who admitted to a $35 million bribery scheme in the largest corruption scandal in U.S. military history, has been arrested and returned by Venezuela to the United States as part of a major prisoner swap between . . .
Police officers are searching for four prisoners who escaped from the Bibb County Detention Center in Georgia around 3:00 a.m. on Oct. 16. The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office posted about the incident on its Facebook page and is seeking help in capturing the escapees. The Bibb County Detention Center is located about 85 miles southeast […]
The prisoner swap was all arranged, or so the American negotiators thought. After years of painstaking negotiations with Iran, secretly mediated by Persian Gulf nations, top aides to President Biden had finally struck a deal on June 6 that would free four Americans held in one of Iran’s most notorious prisons. In exchange, the United […]
Comment on this storyComment NEW YORK — The United States and Iran freed 10 people on Monday in a high-stakes prisoner swap that signaled a partial thaw in the icy relations between the longtime adversaries. Five American citizens held in Iran will fly to the United States after a brief stop in the . . […]
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Five Americans detained for years in Iran walked off a plane and into freedom Monday, many arm-in-arm, as part of a deal that saw President Joe Biden agree to unlock nearly $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets. The deal brought Biden profuse thanks from their families but heat from Republican opponents […]
US Senator Chris Murphy calls for additional $235m to be withheld over Egypt’s ‘egregious human rights record’. The United States plans to withhold $85m in military aid to Egypt owing to Cairo’s failure to uphold US conditions on freeing political prisoners and other human rights issues, a US senator said, with some of the withheld […]