1 hour ago ‘One of the best murder mystery shows ever’ is finally back for season 2

A critically acclaimed murder mystery series led by a beloved star is finally back this week on Sky Go and NOW

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22 h. ago Israel is starving Gaza. It’s a cheap, silent and brutal way to kill | Ahmed Moor

Starvation is a slow, painful way to die. And unlike bombs and tanks, it’s easy for western leaders to ignoreI recently looked up a biography of Rudolf Höss. The Kommandant who led the Auschwitz prison camp in Poland during the second world war was fastidious in his duties. He successfully oversaw the extermination of millions of people from 1940 to 1943, and, according to accounts, seems to have been a father who cared for his five children. His home life was imagined, and captured, by the film-maker Jonathan Glazer in his 2023 movie The Zone of Interest.John Primomo recounts, in his biography, how the Nazi would randomly select groups of prisoners and sentence them to die by starvation. Höss was eventually captured by Nazi hunters and hanged for his crimes, in his case a slow death on a short gallows.Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian American writer and recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans Continue reading...

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22 h. ago One of Alcatraz’s last living inmates speaks out on Trump’s plan to reopen prison

Charlie Hopkins believes president is not serious about reviving storied San Francisco jail

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23 h. ago Two teenagers found with 5,000 ants could serve 12 months in prison

The pair have been fined $7,700 or the option to serve the maximum penalty for violating wildlife conservation laws in prison

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25 h. ago Killer who sliced victim's throat and smacked inmate with pool cue dies behind bars

Kirk McIntyre, 56, was given a 20-year sentence in 2018 after being convicted of the 2017 murder of Frederick McGettigan in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire

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66 h. ago Critics blast Trump’s Alcatraz plan over cost: Everything you need to know about reopening the notorious prison

Trump has directed officials to reopen a ‘substantially enlarged and rebuilt’ prison on Alcatraz Island - but is it really viable?

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3 d. ago Trump orders reopening and expansion of notorious Alcatraz prison

The former federal penitentiary is located on a remote San Francisco island and closed in 1963

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3 d. ago Trump orders reopening and expansion of Alcatraz to house country’s ‘most ruthless’ offenders

The former federal penitentiary is located on a remote San Francisco island and closed in 1963

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3 d. ago Trump says he has ordered reopening and expansion of Alcatraz to house country’s ‘most ruthless’ offenders

The federal penitentiary is located on a San Francisco island and closed in 1963

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4 d. ago Organist at landmark London church confesses to molesting 17

A musician who presided over one of the world's most celebrated chamber ensembles has avoided prison 'by a hair's breath' after he admitted sexually abusing a teenage boy a quarter of a century ago.

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5 d. ago 31 of England’s prisons are Victorian. Do they work? – visual investigation

Many jails still in use today were built by the Victorians. Here’s how their 19th-century design is contributing to a 21st-century crisisEngland in the 1840s was a place of dizzying industry, rapid urbanisation and technological progress.Among the proliferation of inventions, a new type of building was unveiled to the world. A prison, K-shaped with long corridors made of sure, thick walls, and small windows in cold, solitary cells.The new prison will be most conducive to the reformation of prisoners and to the repression of crime It resolves itself into a greater uniformity of plan and purpose than has yet been exhibited in prison architecture.The Illustrated London News in its coverage of the new facility on August 13, 1842.The piers or partitions between them are 18 inches thick, and are worked with close joints, so as to preclude as much as possible the transmission of sound. A description of HMP Pentonville in the Illustrated London News, 1843 Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Actor Diego Boneta is trying something new with debut novel 'The Undoing of Alejandro Velasco'

Diego Boneta grew tired of Hollywood’s obsession with narcos storylines for Latinos, so he decided to shake things up by writing his own self-described “murder mystery, sexual thriller” set around a fictional business empire

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7 d. ago Scots killer who brutally slit victim's throat and battered inmate with pool cue dies in jail

Kirk McIntyre, 56, died at HMP Shotts in North Lanarkshire on April 25.

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7 d. ago Court refuses to halt execution of Gulf War veteran who killed girlfriend and three children

Hutchinson's lawyers said he suffers from Gulf War Illness as well as post-traumatic stress disorder

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7 d. ago Netflix confirms The Thursday Murder Club film release date and full cast

Netflix has confirmed an official release date for The Thursday Murder Club film which is an on-screen adaptation of Richard Osman's best selling murder mystery novel.

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8 d. ago Inside Taganrog: beatings, electrocution and starvation at prison where Ukrainians were tortured

Russia is holding an estimated 16,000 civilians in arbitrary detention at 180 separate facilities. Taganrog was the most notorious.Some weeks after being detained as she attempted to leave a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine in January 2023, Yelyzaveta Shylyk was given a polygraph test. As her interrogators attached the lie detector’s wires to her, they calmly issued a threat about what would happen if she failed the test: “You’ll go to a place where you’ll regret being born.”That place, she would later find out, had a name: Sizo number 2, a pre-trial detention centre in the southern Russian city of Taganrog. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago ‘Numerous signs of torture’: Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison

The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final monthsThe exchange took place on a lonely forest road in February. Moving along a line of refrigerated lorries, the teams in hazmat suits went about their grim work: preparing the remains of 757 Ukrainian military casualties handed over by Russia for the journey back to Kyiv.Clipboards in hand, intermediaries from the Red Cross checked their lists. For each body shrouded in white plastic, the Russians had provided a number, a name, a location, sometimes a cause of death. And then, at the very bottom of the last page, a mystery entry: “NM SPAS 757.” The letters were abbreviations, taken to mean “unidentified man” and “extensive damage to the coronary arteries”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago ‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison

The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final monthsThe exchange took place on a lonely forest road in February. Moving along a line of refrigerated lorries, the teams in hazmat suits went about their grim work: preparing the remains of 757 Ukrainian military casualties handed over by Russia for the journey back to Kyiv.Clipboards in hand, intermediaries from the Red Cross checked their lists. For each body shrouded in white plastic, the Russians had provided a number, a name, a location, sometimes a cause of death. And then, at the very bottom of the last page, a mystery entry: “NM SPAS 757.” The letters were abbreviations, taken to mean “unidentified man” and “extensive damage to the coronary arteries”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago US Supreme Court declines review of Mississippi death row inmate's convictions in killings of 8

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, including his mother-in-law and a deputy sheriff

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9 d. ago A Knives Out murder mystery dinner experience is coming to the UK

Netflix has teamed up with a top London steak restaurant to bring a one-of-a-kind immersive dining experience that will see fans solve a murder like Daniel Craig's character Benoit Blanc

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