22 h. ago Man suffocated to death after being hurt and neglected in Colorado jail, family says

Lawsuit says Michael Burch, who died in 2023, languished in cell for a week with no medical care after fight with deputyA 69-year-old man slowly suffocated to death in a rural Colorado jail after his ribs were broken in an altercation with a deputy and he languished in a cell for a week without medical care, according to a lawsuit announced on Thursday.Michael Burch’s 2023 death was ruled a homicide. Prosecutors declined to bring criminal charges against the deputy who used a Taser on Burch and wrestled with him in a Huerfano county jail cell. In making the decision, district attorney Henry Solano cited self-defense laws. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Rapper who appeared with Trump at rally pleads guilty to attempted murder

Prosecutors say Sheff G, who supported the president last year, used career earnings to fuel gang violence in BrooklynA New York City rapper who joined Donald Trump during a campaign rally last year has pleaded guilty to attempted murder and conspiracy charges after prosecutors say he used earnings from his music career to fuel gang violence in Brooklyn.Sheff G, whose legal name is Michael Williams, agreed to serve five years in prison as part of the plea entered in a Brooklyn court on Wednesday, Brooklyn district attorney Eric Gonzalez said. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Prosecutors in the killings of 4 Idaho students seek to use man's crime scene paper as evidence

A court filing says prosecutors in the case of the man charged in the killings of four University of Idaho students in late 2022 are seeking to use as evidence a college paper he wrote that shows his knowledge of crime scenes

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49 h. ago Mexican drug lord charged with killing DEA agent could face death penalty

Federal prosecutors are considering seeking the death penalty against Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero in a sprawling case that includes the 1985 killing of a U.S. federal agent

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60 h. ago Racist gunman could avoid death penalty for Walmart massacre

Patrick Crusius has been offered a plea deal after killing 23

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2 d. ago LA district attorney allows prosecutors to seek death penalty again

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman is allowing prosecutors to seek the death penalty again, reversing a ban put in place by his predecessor

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2 d. ago Gunman who killed 23 in racist attack at Texas Walmart offered plea deal to avoid death penalty

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 in one of the the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history has been offered a plea deal to avoid the death penalty

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4 d. ago Person who called 911 for deceased former US attorney Jessica Aber ‘refused’ to perform CPR

The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia suffered from a long-term condition, revealed a source

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5 d. ago Former US attorney for eastern district of Virginia found dead at age 43

Alexandria police find Jessica Aber unresponsive after responding to reports and say investigation under wayThe former US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia was found dead in Alexandria on Saturday, authorities said.In a statement on social media, Alexandria police announced that at about 9.18am on Saturday, police responded to the 900 block of Beverley Drive following reports of an unresponsive woman. Upon arriving at the scene, authorities located a deceased woman who they later identified as 43-year-old Jessica Aber. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Arizona’s execution pitted experts against politicians. Experts lost | Austin Sarat

The governor dismissed an ex-judge studying the death penalty in the state and failed to heed a leading voice on the matter. It’s no surpriseOn Wednesday, 19 March, Arizona executed Aaron Gunches by lethal injection. As ABC News reports, he was put to death for “kidnapping and killing 40-year-old Ted Price by shooting him four times in the Arizona desert”.Gunches’s case was unusual in many ways, not least that he stopped his legal appeals and volunteered to be executed, then changed his mind before changing it again. His execution was scheduled to be carried out almost two years ago. It was put on hold when the Arizona governor, Katie Hobbs, commissioned an independent review of the state’s death penalty procedures after a series of botched executions. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Former US attorney who served under Biden found dead at home in Virginia

Jessica D. Aber, former US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia appointed by President Biden, was found dead at her home in Alexandria at age 43, just two months after stepping down.

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7 d. ago Suspicious powder prompts evacuation in office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis

Part of an Atlanta courthouse has been evacuated after a package with suspicious white powder was delivered to the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis

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7 d. ago 'Monstrous' killer who shot woman in head as she shielded five week old baby has been executed

Oklahoma carried out its first execution of 2025 on Thursday, March 20, giving a lethal injection to a confessed killer who had said in his first interview with police that he wanted the death penalty

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7 d. ago Family of Menendez brothers wave off prosecutor criticism and lead rally for their release

The family of Erik and Lyle Menendez is rejecting claims by the Los Angeles district attorney that the brothers hadn’t appropriately taken responsibility for the 1989 killing of their parents and says any lies they told during their murder trial were due to trauma and fear

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8 d. ago Fox anchor invents wild hypothetical to ask White House spox about Tesla vandals and death penalty

Trump administration officials and allies have threatened to harshly punish those who are protesting Tesla through acts of violence

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8 d. ago Man charged in daylong Memphis shooting rampage is no longer serving as his own lawyer

A Tennessee man who faces the death penalty if convicted of killing three people in a daylong series of shootings in 2022 has changed course and decided not to serve as his own lawyer in the case

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1 week ago Judge says Fani Willis violated open records law, orders her to pay $54K in attorneys' fees

A judge has ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to pay more than $54,000 in attorneys’ fees and to turn over documents after finding that her office violated Georgia’s Open Records Act

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1 week ago Mistake caught man who 'almost got away with' throwing wife overboard on cruise

During his sentencing in 2006, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer wrote in a statement that Kocontes "almost got away with the perfect crime"

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2 w. ago South Carolina schedules its fifth execution in seven months

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in South Carolina since the state resumed the death penalty in September

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2 w. ago Trump’s biggest executive orders of his second term...so far: From birth right citizenship to restoring the death penalty

President signed huge stack of orders on first day in office covering everything from national security to paper straws and has shown no sign of slowing down

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