Amir Sarfaraz, also known as Tamba, was accused of brutally murdering Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh , 49, in Kot Lakhpat jail in 2013 before he was assassinated in Lahore.
Candidates running for Fulton County Sheriff told voters at an ACLU of Georgia "Know Your Sheriff" town hall event on Tuesday they plan to improve prison conditions through a combination of additional staff, increased scrutiny of incoming inmates, and upgraded housing. Suggestions come in the wake of a slew of deaths in the county's prison system. As part of the event, candidates completed a questionnaire to inform voters about their position on issues. One question asked, "Since 2022, over 20...
The prison service did not directly address reports 13 prisoners had died since last October.
The New York Times is weeping over the death penalty again, publishing a glowing review of Nashville reporter Steven Hale’s book Death Row Welcomes You. Obviously, it’s an important book, since only 1 million journalists have already written about their touching and personal relationships with men sentenced to death. Although I am generally a hate-reader […]
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted clemency to more than 4,000 prisoners, including some who were on death row, in an independence day amnesty on Thursday. Zimbabwe marked 44 years of independence from white minority rule, which ended in 1980 after a bloody bush war. The country’s name was changed from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe. The presidential amnesty, the second in less than a year, benefits female, older and juvenile inmates, the terminally ill and some who were originally sentenced to...
The mother of an inmate who died in prison claims officers beat him to death and left him in a pool of his own blood, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed Thursday in state court.
RAGING locals blasted a “disrespectful” tourist for camping overnight in a cemetery car park – and hanging their washing out. A resident spotted the van in the morning at Balnakeil Church and
The death is the sixth suspected suicide in Arkansas prisons in less than four months this year. There were eight in all of last year.
The Netherlands' digital mininster said the government will be forced to stop using Facebook pages if it doesn't get clarity on its concerns from Meta.
The Dutch privacy watchdog AP on Friday said it was recommending that government organizations should stop using Facebook as long as it is unclear what happens with personal data of users of the government's Facebook pages. People that visit a government's page need to be able to trust that their personal and sensitive data is in safe hands, AP chairman Aleid Wolfsen said in a statement. Junior minister for digitalization Alexandra van Huffelen said Facebook parent company Meta had to make...
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.
By GABE STERN and RIO YAMAT Associated Press/Report for America LAS VEGAS (AP) — The mother of a Nevada prisoner who died in custody has filed a wrongful death lawsuit calling into question the coroner’s narrative that her son died of heart problems. The lawsuit filed late Thursday in Clark County District Court says Christian