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 […]
The man convicted of killing two Coast Guard employees at the communications station on the Kodiak Coast Guard base in April of 2012 stood before Judge Ralph Beistline on Tuesday for sentencing. Judge Beistline gave 63-year-old James Wells a sentence of two life terms for the killing of retired U.S. Coast Guard Chief Boatswain’s Mate Richard […]
Early Sunday morning at 1:30 am, Soldotna Dispatch was notified by officials at the Spring Creek Correctional Facility in Seward of an assault that occurred between two inmates there. The man, identified as 29-year-old Elihu Gillespie, was found unresponsive in his cell in the high security area of the prison. Gillespie was transported from the […]