Oklahoma plans for first execution since troubled lethal injection
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Oklahoma this week plans to conduct its first execution since a faulty lethal injection last April led to U.N. criticism and prompted President Barack Obama to seek a re-examination of how capital punishment is implemented in …
U.S. Marine general sees competition for next amphibious ship
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Marine Corps will insist on competition for the next U.S. amphibious warship despite a decision last year to base the ship on the LPD-17 ship designed by Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc, Major General Robert Walsh said…
NYC to end solitary for Rikers inmates age 21 or younger
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York City Board of Correction on Tuesday voted to ban solitary confinement for inmates age 21 or younger at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex, city officials said.
Convicted killer Jodi Arias struggled to admit murder, transcript says
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Convicted murderer Jodi Arias told a jury deciding whether she should be executed for killing her former lover that she struggled for two years to admit to herself that she did the crime, according to secret testimony released on Tu…
Pennsylvania lawsuit challenges capital city’s gun rules
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – Two Pennsylvania residents on Tuesday sued the state’s capital city seeking to force it to repeal five gun-control ordinances, under a new state law intended to stop local governments from adopting tighter rules than are in …
Judge weighs dispute over Martin Luther King Jr.’s Bible, Nobel medal
ATLANTA (Reuters) – An Atlanta judge on Tuesday began weighing a dispute among the children of the late Martin Luther King Jr. over ownership of his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize medal and the Bible he carried during the civil rights movement.
U.S. police organizations criticize response to alleged brutality
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. police are being unfairly targeted in response to allegations of police brutality, leaders from three police organizations said at the first public meeting of U.S. President Barack Obama’s policing task force on Tuesday.
North Dakota, Arkansas ask court to allow abortion curbs
ST LOUIS (Reuters) – Attorneys for North Dakota and Arkansas urged a U.S. appeals court panel on Tuesday to overturn federal judge decisions that block state laws that would shorten the period allowed for a woman to end a pregnancy.
2014 attacks on Jews in U.S. Midwest detailed in report
(Reuters) – A shooting spree by a white supremacist at two Jewish facilities near Kansas City was one of a series of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. Midwest last year, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Third Detroit man to stand trial for shooting death of French street artist
DETROIT (Reuters) – A judge ruled on Tuesday that a third Detroit man accused in the killing of a 23-year-old French street artist will stand trial for his 2013 shooting death, prosecutors said.
