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Firefighters who put out a smoldering fire in the living room of a Columbus, Mississippi, house in February, 1992, found Georgia Kemp, 82, lying dead on her bedroom floor, a bloody butcher knife on her bed.
John George Spirko, Jr. was a criminal with a system he believed would help cut his time in prison: He made up information for authorities, pretending to have knowledge that would help solve crimes.
Hours after issuing a press release announcing new rules that appeared to prohibit prisoners from being sent news articles printed off the internet, a department spokesman announced the new regulation would be rewritten to clarify that digital news articles would not be banned.
Faced with lawsuits over past bans on books and correspondence, the Illinois Department of Corrections enacted a new regulation. But attorneys for prisoners immediately blasted the new rules, which ban anything that is downloaded from the internet, as “draconian and unconstitutional.”
Texas lawmakers, the European Union, celebrities and more than two million petitioners have asked Gov. Greg Abbott to halt the November 20 execution of inmate Rodney Reed, amid growing evidence of his innocence.
After sharp criticism a year ago that the associate judge contests resulted in only one new black candidate winning a seat, Cook County court officials made a point to emphasize the diversity of finalists for the 15 seats to be filled by a vote of the county’s circuit judges.
Cook County’s chief judge announced the 30 finalists for vacant associate judge posts. The list includes several familiar names of candidates who have sought judgeships in the past.
Four years after the naked and battered body of Barbara Jean Horn was found in a trash bag in Philadelphia, the police had made no arrests despite having a series of suspects.
The bodies of Bearnhardt and Cora Hartig, both 81, were found on the kitchen floor of their rural Ohio home in 1990, along with ten .25-caliber shell casings. Police found open jewelry boxes in the bedroom that had been rifled through.
Two appellate judges ordered Monday that Oklahoma inmate Karl Allen Fontenot, originally sentenced to die after he was convicted of a 1984 murder, be released on bond next month as significant evidence has emerged that cast doubt on his and a codefendant’s guilt.