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.
Tomas Gallo, 49, was convicted of capital murder in the death of 3-year-old Destiny Flores, who was sexually assaulted, bitten, bruised and thrown against the side of a bathtub, according to court records. Gallo now faces a life sentence with the possibility of parole after a Wednesday ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
O.J. Simpson's death certificate released this week confirms he died of prostate cancer at his home in Las Vegas, his attorney told The Times. Attorney Malcolm LaVergne said on Saturday the Clark County, Nev.-issued death certificate “just confirms what I think most people widely suspected anyway — it was prostate cancer. No other causes listed.” Simpson's family previously said on the social media platform X that the 76-year-old had died of cancer April 10. Simpson, a former football star, was...
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
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.
Musician Toomaj Salehi had backed anti-government nationwide protests in 2022.
Lawsuits filed on behalf of five families of deceased Alabama prison inmates claim UAB Medical Center took and retained inmates’ organs without the consent of their family members.
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Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has been involved in so many Hollywood hit films over the years, and he’s got some great behind the scenes stories to tell. One of them was...