3 h. ago Alabama governor commutes death sentence of man convicted for 1991 murder

Kay Ivey says Robin ‘Rocky’ Myers will serve life in prison after jury claimed lack of physical evidence at crime sceneThe Alabama governor, Kay Ivey, on Friday commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison after noting questions about his case.Ivey said Myers, who was facing execution this spring, will instead spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. She noted that was the sentence jurors at his 1994 trial had recommended. A judge overruled that recommendation and imposed a death sentence, a maneuver that has since been outlawed in Alabama, according to the human rights advocacy organization Amnesty International. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Alabama governor commutes death row inmate Rocky Myers' sentence to life in prison

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison after noting questions about his case

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18 h. ago Two priests 'plotted to assassinate' top Russian bishop known as Putin's personal 'confessor'

Clerics Denis Popovich, 27, and Nikita Ivankovich, 28, have been held by the Russian FSB security service and face life in prison if found guilty of terrorism charges

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42 h. ago Charles Bronson's freedom bid halted AGAIN as ex accuses parole board of provoking him

"Britain's most notorious prisoner" was due to face the parole board next month after spending most of his life in prison - but the hearing has been pushed back until December

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58 h. ago Nitrogen gas is banned in Louisiana to euthanize dogs. The state plans to use it to kill a death row inmate next month

‘This is a state that hasn't executed anybody in 15 years, and suddenly there’s this rush to kill,’ Jessie Hoffman’s attorney told The Independent

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3 d. ago He's had three 'last meals' on Oklahoma's death row. The Supreme Court has now tossed his conviction

A death row inmate in Oklahoma who has been scheduled for execution nine separate times and been fed three “last meals” has won a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court tossed his murder conviction

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3 d. ago Terror plotter who planned Hyde Park shooting loses appeal against sentence

Edward Little was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 24 years in January 2024.

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3 d. ago The play that changed my life: Sing Sing’s Clarence Maclin on lessons from Sophocles in prison

Staging Shakespeare and Twelve Angry Men with fellow prisoners was a revelation but Oedipus Rex proved particularly poignantWhen I came to the Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) theatre at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 1995, I’d been sentenced to 17 years for robbery. It was not my intention to watch a play. They were doing One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I saw my brother Dino who was playing Big Chief, the Native American guy. I knew Dino from elsewhere in the jail, but not for this.I got involved. I found a fascination for Shakespeare that I really didn’t expect. I didn’t think I’d understand the language. And I didn’t at first. But it fascinated me enough to research and study it: I loved becoming able to translate that so that others could feel the intensity of it. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Louisiana’s oldest death row inmate dies 3 weeks before he was to be state’s first execution in 15 years

“Give me a little time,” Christopher Sepulvado’s ex, who also served time for her son’s murder, told The Independent. “I’m not ready to comment yet.”

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4 d. ago Scots smuggler 'boasts of cushy prison life on TikTok using smuggled mobile'

Lee Robb was caged after using goose hunting as a cover for trafficking heroin.

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4 d. ago Prisons should be places of rehabilitation, not rife with drug

"It is entirely unacceptable that any drug-taking may have happened in the full knowledge of prison bosses but ignored for an easy life."

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7 d. ago Los Angeles DA opposes new trial for Menendez brothers over parents’ deaths

Nathan Hochman casts doubt on sexual abuse claims but declines to say whether he would support resentencingLos Angeles’s new tough-on-crime district attorney made clear on Friday he is taking a much less sympathetic view of Erik and Lyle Menendez’s case, though his office has not yet announced what position it will take on the issue of whether the brothers should be resentenced.Erik, 53, and Lyle, 56, Menendez were found guilty of first-degree murder in the killings of José and Kitty Menendez in 1989, and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Kim Kardashian sued by man she misidentified on Instagram as death row inmate

The man’s attorney told The Independent that his client is still “in treatment” and “working through it.”

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7 d. ago Man charged in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing to appear in Manhattan court

Luigi Mangione faces state-level murder and terrorism charges, as well as federal countsLuigi Mangione is scheduled to appear in Manhattan state court on Friday in the 4 December killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione, 26, faces state-level murder and terrorism charges, as well as federal counts, for allegedly gunning down Thompson in a brazen street assassination.Mangione has maintained his innocence. The state case against him carries a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole, while his federal case could carry a possible death penalty. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Kim Kardashian sued by innocent man she wrongly labeled a death row inmate

The 44-year-old reality star shared a picture to her social media last February of a man identified as Ivan Cantu a project manager from Westchester - but identified him as a death row inmate.

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8 d. ago Burglar stole from property after trying front doors but his jacket gave him away

Kristian Evans' advocate said his client had spent much of his life in prison and "it may be that at the age of 42 he is institutionalised and is unable to cope outside the prison regime."

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8 d. ago Night in pub ends with man on run, another in prison and teen facing a life sentence

One victim was left with a punctured lung - with the violence spilling out onto an illuminated dancefloor

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8 d. ago My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’

I saw first hand how prisons are having to use segregation units for acutely mentally ill inmates who should not be in prison at allAs a former prison officer, I have opened thousands of cell doors. For almost a decade, I unlocked cells in residential blocks, healthcare units, first night centres, close supervision centres and segregation units. The twist and click of a key in the lock came to feel like background noise to me. But there are some occasions I remember more vividly than others. Sometimes the person inside wasn’t so keen on coming out.One of those challenging incidents took place a few years ago, while I was on shift in a segregation unit in a busy London jail. Prisoners are sent to the seg for a variety of reasons – fights, assaults on staff, possession of contraband – but normally for no longer than a week or two. The seg was made up of 18 single cells spread over two storeys. I was in a team of six, all of us in full riot gear. We were moving a mentally ill prisoner ...

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9 d. ago A$AP Rocky returns to a life of music, fashion, film and Rihanna with his acquittal

A$AP Rocky gets to return to life at the peak of his fame instead of the long prison sentence that might have come from a conviction at his felony trial

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9 d. ago Native American activist released from prison will be welcomed to North Dakota home

Supporters plan to welcome Native American activist Leonard Peltier back to his North Dakota community after his release from a Florida prison where he had been serving a life sentence in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents

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