NASHVILLE, Tenn. – After more than a year of delays, a trial challenging Tennessee’s method for executing prisoners has begun. Steve Kissinger represents 33 death row inmates who say lethal injection is unconstitutional. In opening statements, Kissinger said the state’s use of prison guards to inject the drug creates a …
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JUNEAU, Alaska – Firefighters in Alaska rescued a Boy Scout after a 3,000-pound boulder tumbled onto him at a Juneau camp, pinning his legs. The Juneau Empire reports (http://bit.ly/1HLQWkL) Capital City Fire/Rescue freed the boy Monday after an intensive rescue that took about two hours. The Ketchikan teen’s name hasn’t …
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GALESBURG, Ill. – An Illinois man scheduled to be executed next month in Oklahoma for his role in a 1997 killing is raising questions about his case, telling a newspaper in his hometown that Oklahoma is going to “kill an innocent man.” Richard Eugene Glossip, born and raised in Galesburg, …
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LOS ANGELES – A man suspected of killing a retired dentist, taking three men hostage and wounding two deputies was likely using the famed Pacific Crest Trail to elude searchers for 18 days. Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said Monday that investigators believe 34-year-old Benjamin Peter Ashley was headed back …
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HONOLULU – The University of Hawaii sophomore who lived in a 14th-floor campus apartment where a man fell to his death from a window ledge says he watched him and another man plummet to the ground. Twenty-four-year-old Thomas Bennett was pronounced dead at a hospital. Police say he tried to …
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RALEIGH, N.C. – The deaths of four people killed on zip lines and other challenge courses this summer has drawn attention to a regulatory safety net full of holes. After the death of 12-year-old Bonnie Sanders Burney, the North Carolina General Assembly swiftly passed a law requiring the state to …
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NEW YORK – A lawsuit says a crew of prison guards known as the “Beat Up Squad” killed a handcuffed inmate in a New York City lockup. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan by the family of 30-year-old Samuel Harrell. It alleges that the “Beat Up …
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said, “effective immediately,” he would pause the issuance of worker visas for commercial drivers after an illegal immigrant truck driver allegedly caused a crash that killed three people in Florida. In a post on X, Rubio cited public safety for the move. “The …
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A home explosion outside of St. Louis, Missouri damaged more than 20 properties and reportedly left an 18-year-old with life-threatening injuries. The St. Louis County Police Department said at least three people were hurt in the blast that rocked a neighborhood in the northern part of the county Monday morning. …
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DENVER — Kristen Mittelman, a top executive at the forensics firm Othram, met Stacy Chapin at CrimeCon two years ago in Orlando. “I honestly don’t know why I was there. I mean, I’d been invited to be there, but we were only 10 months out from losing Ethan,” Chapin said …
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