The death penalty is no more in the state of Connecticut, effective immediately. Governor Dannel Malloy signed the bill last night that lawmakers recently passed. Malloy said one of the contributing factors that led him to sign the bill was the “unworkability” of Connecticut’s death penalty law. “In the last 52 years, only 2 people [...]
Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales has just been formally charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and six counts of attempted murder. The formal charges come in the wake of a shooting rampage in Afghanistan that left Americans shocked and further strained U.S. relations with Afghanistan. Two weeks ago, Bales allegedly departed from his base [...]
Here are your top stories for this Wednesday, January 11, 2012: – Iran confirms death sentence to American – Four dead in apparent Ohio murder-suicide – North Carolina panels says sterilization victims should get $50,000 – Alaska town seeks shovels for next storm Incoming search terms:fabian maureira artisttop news stories in January 2012
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Iran’s Revolutionary Court has handed down a death sentence to an American for spying for the CIA, according to the Fars news agency. “Amir Mirza Hekmati was sentenced to death … for cooperating with the hostile country (the United States) and spying for the CIA,” Fars said. “The court found him Corrupt on Earth and [...]
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Here are your top stories for this Saturday, December 31, 2011: – Ron Paul and Mitt Romney: neck-and-neck in Iowa – Arsonist on the loose in Hollywood – Death penalty being considered for girl’s murder – Shot Marine released from hospital
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Joshua Komisarjevsky has just been found guilty in the horrific, 2007 home invasion in Cheshire, Connecticut that took the lives of a mother and her two daughters. He has been found guilty on all 17 of the charges against him, including the murder of Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and her daughters Hayley Petit, 17, and Michaela Petit, [...]
Troy Davis was executed in Georgia last night, despite last minute efforts to spare him and despite his continued claims of innocence. Outside the prison where he was being held, a crowd of several hundred protesters cried and prayed. They spoke for the hundreds of thousands of supporters around the world who disagreed with Davis’ [...]
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Is an innocent man about to be executed for a crime he didn’t commit? It could happen in the state of Georgia, but no one seems to know for sure. The Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole has denied clemency for death-row inmate Troy Davis, who in 1989 was convicted of killing police officer Mark MacPhail. [...]
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In what’s sure to be a media circus, the Casey Anthony trial got under way today. Only minutes into the prosecutor opening statement, Casey became visibly upset, nodding her head then crying. Casey Anthony entered the courtroom in Orange County, Florida at about 8:50 a.m. EDT this morning, wearing a white, long-sleeved shirt and had [...]
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Let the media circus begin. The Casey Anthony trial will soon be underway in Florida, and the jury selection process has already begun. Casey Anthony, 25, has been charged with first degree murder for allegedly killing her then two-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony. Little Caylee went missing in June 2008 but her mother didn’t notify authorities [...]
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The state of Ohio has executed Frank Spisak, a cross-dressing Nazi wannabe who killed three people almost 30 years ago in a shooting rampage that targeted African Americans at Cleveland State University. Spisak, 59, was pronounced dead at 10:34 a.m. EST this morning (Thursday) following a lethal injection of sodium thiopental at the Southern Ohio [...]
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The State of Arizona has executed Jeffrey Landrigan after a British company supplied the state with the chemicals needed for the lethal injection. Landrigan, 50, was executed at 6:26 a.m. local time. He had been given the death penalty after strangling Chester Dyer during an armed burglary, and in 1989 he escaped from an Oklahoma [...]
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