The UK Home Office has suspended cooperation with the US in the case of two alleged Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) fighters raised in Britain, who could face the death penalty if tried under the United States’ jurisdiction. The move comes after Home Secretary Sajid Javid, in a leaked letter to US Attorney General Jeff […]
A model was killed after his catwalk rival allegedly stabbed him in the heart, in west London, after a social media row ‘over a woman’ culminated in a deadly confrontation, the Old Bailey has heard. Harry Ukoza, 25, from Shepherd’s Bush, collapsed on the pavement outside his home after allegedly being stabbed by his modelling […]
For the last two decades, Curtis Flowers has been on death row in Mississippi for a 1996 quadruple murder. He has consistently maintained his innocence and appealed his case six different times on issues ranging from racial bias in jury selection to prosecutorial misconduct. But each time, District Attorney Doug Evans succeeded in keeping Flowers behind bars, largely […]
UK ministers took part in a secret exercise to prepare for the aftermath of the Queen’s death, according to a report by the Sunday Times. The scale of the high-level gathering was dubbed “unprecedented.” Thursday’s meeting was chaired by UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s deputy David Lidington, and was attended by Home Secretary Sajid Javid, […]
With all the bluster from Pennsylvania Avenue about executing drug dealers and school shooters and MS-13 members, you may not have noticed that the death penalty has been in a long and steady decline. Executions and death sentences in the United States have dropped more than 75 percent from their highs of two decades ago, […]
Montana hasn’t executed anyone in more a decade, and it’s unlikely to carry out a death sentence anytime soon. But you wouldn’t know that from watching the state’s US Senate race. In the hotly contested primary to take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, one Republican candidate—former Judge Russ Fagg—has decided to make capital punishment […]
UKIP’s disastrous performance in the local elections in England has prompted a senior figure to compare the party to the Black Death, a disease that killed over 50m across Europe in the 14th century. By 9am on Friday morning the party had lost 92 out of its 183 councilors. The only high point was in […]
Seventh-round NFL draft pick Pat Tillman wasted no time in setting records for tackles on the football field for the Arizona Cardinals. But in the Spring of 2002, after marrying his childhood sweetheart, Tillman walked away from his multi-million-dollar NFL salary and joined the Army with his brother. Tillman’s departure from the NFL was widely […]
Soda will cost you more in Philadelphia, Seattle, Boulder, Colorado, and a bunch of California cities because politicians in those places voted to tax it. The social engineers claim soda taxes will “reduce obesity,” “lower diabetes rates,” “reduce medical costs,” etc. But the politicians’ main goal is to bring in money. Philadelphia city council members […]
A doctor is facing professional ruin after a man he pronounced dead was later seen walking around Galilee in perfect health. The disgraced medic says that he didn’t have time to look closely at the alleged corpse before signing the papers, claiming he was ‘under pressure to meet targets’. He now admits, ‘I just looked […]