Seventy years after his death, then 14-year-old George Stinney Jr got justice of sorts when his conviction for the killing of two young white girls was vacated by South Carolina Judge Carmen Mullins on Wednesday morning. Young Stinney was executed in that state’s electric chair less than three months after his conviction on the murder […]
Once again, the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has released a video showing the beheading of another American. This time the video shows the beheading of freelance American journalist 31-year-old Steven Sotloff. The video begins with Sotloff identifying himself in the footage titled, “A Second Message to America.” In the […]
In its sixth execution this year, the state of Missouri carried out the execution of small-time methamphetamine dealer 54-year-old John Middleton, after he was convicted of murdering three people in the rural northern part of that state in the mid-90s. It was in June of 1995, according to Missouri’s court, that Middleton carried out the […]
The man who killed six of his family members, Ron Lee Haskell, collapsed in court as capital murder charges against him were being read aloud in a Harris County Courtroom on Friday. He had to be wheeled from the courtroom in a wheelchair. Haskell is charged with shooting his ex-wife’s sister and her family on Wednesday […]