A glaring racial disparity is evident in the 73 botched procedures involving lethal injections since 1976, report by Reprieve findsBlack incarcerated people have been subjected to prolonged and painful botched executions in the US at more than twice the rate of white death row inmates, a new study has found.While glaring racial disparities have long been visible in US capital punishment, the report from the international human rights group Reprieve finds that the inequities exist even inside the...
A lawsuit challenging Japan’s practice of giving death row inmates just a couple hours notice before execution was dismissed on Monday.
Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would provide new sentences for about 30 inmates who were given the death penalty despite a jury’s recommendation of life imprisonment.
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Kansas corrections officials are investigating the death of an inmate from Reno County at the Lansing Correctional Facility. Prison officials said 44-year-old Robert Blanchette was found unresponsive in his cell on
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A hearing will be held Monday in Sedgwick County District Court on the appeals by brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr of the death sentences they were given in a capital murder
LOGAN, Utah, April 17, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — A prisoner was found deceased in his cell Wednesday in the Cache County Jail. “On April 17, 2024 at approximately 2:45 p.m. an inmate at the Cache County Jail was found unresponsive in his cell by deputies,” the Cache County Sheriff’s Office announced online Wednesday night. “The […] The post Inmate’s death at Cache County Jail under investigation first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
Top prison official Sanjay Baniwal Monday said an inmate can only sign two kinds of documents while in judicial custody and they should not be political in nature.
Josip Stanisic scored a 97th-minute equalizer as Bayer Leverkusen maintained their unbeaten season run, drawing 1-1 against Borussia Dortmund on Sunday afternoon. It seemed that the newly crowned Bundesliga winners would suffer their first defeat of the campaign when Niclas Fullkrug struck in the 81st minute to give Dortmund the lead but Stanisic’s header prevented Josip Stanisic scored a 97th-minute equalizer as Bayer Leverkusen maintained their unbeaten season run, drawing 1-1 against...
Senior State District Judge Arturo Nelson on Friday approved an agreement between prosecutors and Lucio’s attorneys that
Jury selection has started in the retrial of a former corrections officer charged in the death of an inmate at a county jail in northern Ohio
Crowley and Johnson were joined by Chief Judge Carl Ashley at Community Reintegration Center.
Coroners are called up to investigate any deaths reported to them where it is thought that the circumstances were violent or unnatural, the cause is unknown, or the person died while in prison, police custody or another type of state detention. As well as being responsible for investigating the causes of such deaths, they also have a duty to contact the nearest surviving relatives. The team at Wakefield Coroner’s Office is currently appealing for the public to help in tracing any known relatives...