A judge on Friday signed off on an agreed order between the Cameron County District Attorney’s Office and appellate attorneys for Melissa Lucio that she did not have access to evidence that would have corroborated her story that her 2-year-old daughter died from a fall, not child abuse.
Case will now go before the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals to determine whether her conviction and sentence will be overturned
Florida prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a mother who forced her children, three and eight, to drink bleach. Joanne Zephir strangled her three-year-old daughter to death after stabbing her husband and making her daughters drink bleach, according to prosecutors. The 39-year-old, who claimed she was under the influence of a 'voo-doo spell', will stand trial for first degree murder with a weapon starting May 7
Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow are the two Irish golfers in the field
Zimbabwe becomes the latest country to eye abolition for a form of punishment many on the continent see as a colonial era legacy
(The Center Square) – It’s been more than 15 years since Kentucky executed an inmate, but that may change as the state’s top law enforcement official is seeking to overturn a court injunction that dates back to 2010. A hearing took place in Frankfort with Attorney General Russell Coleman’s office, arguing the order Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd issued in September 2010 should be lifted as state officials have proposed new rules regarding how capital punishment would be...
Almost all the Netherland’s mayors have signed a letter calling for action to combat rising anti-Semitism and to urge people to respect the May 4 traditions, when the Netherlands remembers its war dead. Extra security measures are being brought in for the Remembrance Day ceremony on the Dam in central Amsterdam to exclude protest actions and the number of people allowed to attend will be slashed to 10,000. The measures have been agreed by city mayor Femke Halsema and the police and are down to
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Gonzales’ interview on CNN infuriated members of the House Freedom Caucus, causing one to endorse his primary opponent. By Matthew Choi, The Texas Tribune U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio, ripped into his party’s right flank for voting against billions in foreign aid for U.S. allies last week, castigating his ultraconservative peers as “scumbags” and klansmen. “These people used to walk around with white hoods at night. Now they're walking around with white hoods in the daytime,”...
Despite writing this letter each week, I still wonder why so few of us write real ones anymore. I was thinking of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, who corresponded frequently but met only once: ‘The present racial crisis in this country carries within it powerful destructive ingredients that may soon erupt into an uncontrollable explosion,’ More
The United States government has provided assurances requested by the High Court in London which could finally pave the way for WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange to be extradited from the United Kingdom. Last month, the High Court ruled that, without certain US guarantees, Assange, 52, would be allowed to launch a new appeal against being […]
Texas county at center of border fight overwhelmed by migrant deaths (Third column, 5th story, link)