States With Most Gun Deaths Have High Gun Ownership And Weak Gun Laws, Report Shows
It seems like a relatively obvious equation: The weaker the gun laws and the higher the rate of gun ownership in a given state, the more deaths from gun violence…
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Why Are IQ Scores Still Being Used To Determine Who Is Fit To Be Executed?
This investigation was reported by Dana Goldstein and Maurice Chammah for The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization focused on the U.S. criminal justice system. You can sign up for…
The ‘Insurgent’ Super Bowl Trailer Could Double As A Remake Of ‘Die Hard’
What movie is this trailer selling? Well, clearly it’s “The Divergent Series: Insurgent.” But the crazy visuals make it look like a lost sequel to “The Matrix,” and Shailene Woodley…
Aaron Hernandez case: Who’s who?
By the end of his second season, he inked a five-year contract extension worth $40 million. But less than a year later, he was charged with first-degree murder in the…
Jury to hear opening statements in murder trial of NFL’s Aaron Hernandez
Hernandez, 25, has pleaded not guilty in the 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd, 27, who dated the sister of Hernandez’s fiancée. Two alleged accomplices, Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz, have…
Richard Glossip Reacts To News That He Won’t Be Executed This Week: ‘It’s So Unbelievable’
McALESTER, Okla. — Death row inmate Richard Glossip described Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court order suspending his impending execution as “so unbelievable.” “I’ve felt amazing today,” Glossip said hours after he…
Prosecutor filled with fear before his mysterious death, friend says
The IT security expert was one of the last to see Nisman alive. Nisman was found dead in his apartment days after filing a report accusing the country’s top leaders…
This is Sajida Al-Rishawi, The Jordanian Prisoner ISIS Wants Released
In a new video released on Tuesday, the Islamic State group threatened to execute two hostages within 24 hours unless Jordan releases a female failed suicide bomber who’s been on…
Argentine Officials Point to Aide in Prosecutor’s Mysterious Death
BUENOS AIRES — Argentina’s government on Wednesday cast greater suspicion on an aide to Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor whose mysterious death this month has shaken the country, by describing the…
Dead Baby Found At Recycling Plant A ‘Sick Story’ That’s ‘Become Sicker’: Police Chief
Police say the mother of a baby found dead at a Detroit-area recycling center had three other children but lost custody of them. Roseville Chief James Berlin says the 24-year-old…
Jewish Groups Boycott Argentina’s Holocaust Commemoration
Jewish groups boycotted the Argentine government’s Holocaust Day commemoration Tuesday in protest over the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, while skepticism grew over President Cristina Fernandez’s plan to reform…
Alexander Litvinenko Murder Suspect Calls Accusations ‘Nonsense’
LONDON — Andrei K. Lugovoi, a Russian entrepreneur and former K.G.B. bodyguard accused of poisoning Alexander V. Litvinenko with radioactive polonium 210, was quoted on Wednesday as saying the charges…
Pleas from families of hostages held by ISIS as deadline nears
The post shows an image of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto holding a picture that appears to be of Moaz al-Kassasbeh, the pilot captured by ISIS last month after his jet…
Death Penalty Opponents Make Last-Minute Plea To Save Richard Glossip’s Life
OKLAHOMA CITY — Dozens of death penalty opponents gathered in the Oklahoma state Capitol building Tuesday as part of a last-ditch effort to save the life of Richard Glossip, who…
Warren Hill Faces Execution Despite Numerous Claims He’s Intellectually Disabled
His lawyer said every doctor who’s ever examined him has determined Warren Hill is intellectually disabled, but tonight, unless the Supreme Court intervenes, the Georgia death row inmate will be…
Clemency denied: ‘Intellectually disabled’ man set for execution
[Original story published at 9:43 a.m. ET] Twice-convicted murderer Warren Lee Hill is set to be executed in Georgia on Tuesday night despite pleas from human rights groups and legal…
Was media booted from trial of Kendrick Johnson’s parents?
However, the Johnsons’ attorney, Chevene King, said that only CNN affiliate WCTV-TV had its reporter booted from the courtroom. WCTV had no reporting to that effect on its website, nor…
Women Murdering Men In Western Art History
One of the greatest aspects of ancient Greek civilization was the persistent belief that there was nothing women liked better to do than assemble a gang, air their tits out,…
Intimate Portraits Pay Tribute To Auschwitz Survivors
On Jan. 27, 1945, soldiers of the Soviet army entered the gates of Auschwitz in southern Poland, liberating the largest and most notorious network of Nazi concentration camps. Just 7,000…
Leaders Mark Auschwitz Liberation 70 Years On Without Putin
When the Soviet army entered Auschwitz exactly 70 years ago, finding piles of corpses and prisoners close to death, a Russian soldier took a small and hungry 11-year-old girl into…
Blizzard Death Reported As New York Teenager Dies In Snow-Tubing Accident: Reports
A 17-year-old boy died in a snow-tubing accident on Long Island Monday night, Newsday reported. It was the first reported death of the blizzard that struck the northeast this week….
Argentine Leader Attacks Spy Agency Amid Furor Over Prosecutor’s Death
BUENOS AIRES — With her government badly shaken over the mysterious death of a prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said in…
Argentine President Seeks Overhaul Of Intelligence Services
President Cristina Fernandez said Monday her government had nothing to gain from shielding Iranian officials suspected in Argentina’s largest terrorist attack, using her first public comments since the mysterious death…
‘Intellectually disabled’ man set for execution
Federal law stemming from a 2002 Virginia case that went to the Supreme Court says executing intellectually disabled individuals violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. But…
Body Found In New York In 1979 Identified As Tammy Jo Alexander
A girl found shot to death in a western New York cornfield 35 years ago has been identified as a missing Florida teenager. – Police asked people with information about…
Boston Bombing Case Requires Jurors To Be Open To Death Penalty Frustrating Catholics
BOSTON (RNS) As the quest for a jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial approaches its fourth week, some of the area’s 2 million Roman Catholics are growing frustrated with…
After 100 days, Indonesia’s President says he still goes to the people
“Jokowi!” they shoutusing the nickname by which the country’s new President is universally referredreaching out to him for handshakes and selfies. “Pagi!” — “Good morning!” Since October he’s been the…
Carol Channing Fast Facts
Birth place: Seattle, Washington Birth name: Carol Elaine Channing Father: George Channing, a newspaper editor Mother: Adelaide (Glaser) Channing Marriages: Harry Kullijian (2003-2011, his death); Charles Franklin Lowe 1956-1999, his…
Survivors Visit Auschwitz A Day Ahead Of 70th Anniversary
The voice of Auschwitz survivors praying for their murdered loved ones reverberated Monday amid the barracks and barbed wire of the former Nazi death camp, with one survivor crying out…
Death Penalty Fast Facts
Facts: Capital punishment is legal in 32 U.S. states. Connecticut and New Mexico have abolished the death penalty, but it is not retroactive. Prisoners on death row in those states…