Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has denied clemency for Brian Dorsey one day before his scheduled execution for killing his cousin and her husband. Dorsey’s attorney says she was informed Monday of the decision, calling it “devastating.”
In 2002, Edgar Naranjo was a 26-year-old drug addict desperate for money. He hatched a plan to rob a flea market vendor he figured had a large supply of cologne he could unload for cash. His haphazard scheme went badly awry. After Naranjo and a teenage accomplice broke into their target’s Northwest Side home, the vendor’s son, a Chicago police officer, shot and killed the younger intruder and .
In 2002, Edgar Naranjo was a 26-year-old drug addict desperate for money. He hatched a plan to rob a flea market vendor he figured had a large supply of cologne he could unload for cash. His haphazard scheme went badly awry. After Naranjo and a teenage accomplice broke into their target’s Northwest Side home, the vendor’s son, a Chicago police officer, shot and killed the younger intruder and .
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders faced criticism last week after she pardoned a Thanksgiving turkey while continuing to refuse clemency to a developmentally disabled Black […]
Michael Lightfoot walked out of prison in downstate Danville, took in the view of trees and cars, then hugged his niece. The 67-year-old spent much of his later adult life incarcerated after a drug conviction for possessing 6 grams of cocaine landed him in prison for life — a seemingly hopeless end to years of struggle against addiction. But Lightfoot walked free for the first time in two .
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s office has also received “hundreds of additional calls and requests from private citizens” on DeValkenaere’s behalf, the governor’s spokesperson said.
The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday directed the Union Government to secure a copy of Saudi Arabia court s order confirming the conviction of Indian citizen Shailesh Kumar, so that clemency petition.
By Efia Nwangaza This article, published in Black Agenda Report via Popular Resistance, reports on a United Nations panel of experts in the U.S. that is investigating the condition of political prisoners held in the United States. Greenville, South Carolina An April 26th U.N. Delegation session, bearing the 2010…