Scott Dozier is scheduled to die on Wednesday. The Nevada inmate has been on death row since 2007 for having shot and dismembered 22-year-old Jeremiah Miller in a drug-related crime in 2002. Eight days before the execution, the state announced that they would use a new combination of drugs to put Dozier to death. “There are so many concerns and […]
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 […]
Not the Nokia 6300, but you get the gist In a move designed to control his chronic over-use of the internet, a man in Battambang has put his advanced smartphone aside, and started to use his Nokia 6300 telephone again instead. The Nokia 6300, a Christmas present in 2007, is the most reliable piece of […]
Stars of the UK porn industry are on all fours after the EU advised against the use of British private parts in porn products and merchandise once Brexit takes place. To qualify for free trade access, at least 55% of a product must originate from an EU country. British porn stars gathered at a hastily […]
A homeless man is suing fast-food giant Burger King for $ 950,000 in damages after staff at one of the company’s Boston locations had him arrested for trying to pay for his food with an allegedly counterfeit bill. The man, Emory Ellis, was then jailed for three months, his lawyer told me, after a judge determined that […]
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has been slammed for claiming Democrats who support women’s empowerment should also support Gina Haspel’s nomination to the CIA, despite her record in torture. Sanders said “any Democrat who claims to support women’s empowerment and our national security but opposes her nomination is a total hypocrite” in a tweet […]
An ‘associate’ of Dr. Young earlier American rap star, record producer and medic Dr Dre has incurred the wrath of the US medical community and has been ‘struck off’ after senior members lost patience with his incessant and excessive bad language. Dre, real name Dr. Andre Young, was, this morning, informed by a panel of […]
Late last week, after years of gridlock, the Washington state legislature passed, and Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law, a pair of bills that make it easier for prosecutors to charge police officers involved in fatal on-duty shootings. It was only the second time since August 2014—when mass protests in Ferguson, Missouri, energized the Black Lives […]
‘If you strike me down, I will become more humble than you could ever imagine’. ‘These aren’t the presidential traits you are looking for’ Donald Trump is to spend billions on re-filming all of the Star Wars Films, and playing all of the roles. As well as his role of President, sliding the world ever […]
Carly Novell, a senior at the Florida high school where at 17 people were killed in a mass shooting Wednesday afternoon, survived by hiding in a closet with several of her classmates. It was an eerie parallel to a day almost 70 years earlier, when Novell’s grandfather, Charles Cohen, survived one of the nation’s earliest mass shootings by […]