WASHINGTON — Seven news organizations filed a legal motion Friday asking the U.S. military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to make public the plea agreement […]
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Nevada inmate who died was pepper sprayed and held face down, autopsy shows
LAS VEGAS — A Nevada prisoner died after he was pepper sprayed by guards, shut in a storage room, shackled and restrained with his face […]
Forced to choose how to die, South Carolina inmate lets lawyer pick lethal injection
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A condemned inmate forced to choose how he’ll be put to death ended weeks of suspense by leaving the decision to his […]
Suspect charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a deputy in Houston
HOUSTON — A suspect has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Texas deputy constable who had stopped at a Houston intersection […]
District attorney’s progressive policies face blowback from Louisiana’s conservative Legislature
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams promised to address the city’s history of prosecutorial and police misconduct when he was elected four […]
Oregon law rolling back drug decriminalization set to take effect and make possession a crime again
PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon’s first-in-the-nation experiment with drug decriminalization is coming to an end Sunday, when possessing small amounts of hard drugs will once again […]
Escaped killer who was on the run in Pennsylvania for 2 weeks faces plea hearing
WEST CHESTER, Pa. — A convicted killer captured last year after two weeks on the run in southeastern Pennsylvania’s rolling farmlands is due in court […]
Fired Florida deputy freed on bond in fatal shooting of Black airman
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. — A judge allowed bond Thursday for a Florida sheriff’s deputy who was fired and charged with manslaughter after shooting a […]
Jury deliberates in first criminal trial linked to New Hampshire youth center abuse
CONCORD, N.H. — Jurors in the first criminal trial linked to New Hampshire’s sprawling child abuse scandal began deliberating Thursday in the case of a […]
South Carolina prison director says electric chair, firing squad and lethal injection ready to go
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s prisons director said Wednesday that state’s supply of a lethal injection drug is pure, its electric chair was tested a […]