Oklahoma to execute two convicts after ending court case on drugs
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Oklahoma is set to put to death two men convicted of murder and rape in unrelated cases in a double execution on Tuesday after ending a several weeks’ long legal fight over the secrecy concerning the state’s lethal injection p…
Ohio increases death penalty drug dosages after execution review
(Reuters) – Ohio’s prison department said it would increase the amount of two death penalty drugs it uses in executions after reviewing a case in which a condemned inmate was seen convulsing and gasping for breath for some time after being injected.
U.S. immigration agency ignoring requests for data, complaint records: ACLU
April 29 – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ignored repeated requests for stop-and-search data and other information related to its “extensive but largely opaque” border-patrol operations in southern Arizona, a civil rights group alleged in…
At Nixon library, tension over how to portray a disgraced president
YORBA LINDA, California (Reuters) – Nearly 40 years after President Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace because of the Watergate scandal, the debate over how his legacy should be defined seems as vibrant as ever – at Nixon’s presidential library, at lea…
Hundreds of US inmates sentenced to death are innocent, researchers say
(Reuters) – As many as 300 people who were sentenced to death in the United States over a three-decade period were likely innocent, according to a study published in a leading science journal on Monday.
Alleged shooter to plead guilty in California hair salon rampage
(Reuters) – A former tugboat worker accused of killing his ex-wife and seven others at a California hair salon will change his plea to guilty just weeks before the start of a trial over the largest mass shooting in Orange County history, newspapers rep…
White House pushes colleges to crack down on sexual assaults
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House will press U.S. colleges and universities on Tuesday to do more to curb sexual assaults on students while it launches a new website, NotAlone.gov, to help victims find resources and report crimes.
UAW seeks U.S. State Department help in Mississippi spat with Nissan
DETROIT (Reuters) – The United Auto Workers has aligned with the IndustriALL Global Union in asking the U.S. State Department for help in pressing its claims that Nissan Motor Co Ltd is violating worker organizing rights in Mississippi.
California bill targets websites engaged in ‘mug shot racket’
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – California lawmakers took steps on Monday to bar so-called extortion websites from posting mug shots of people who have been arrested and then demanding payment to remove the photographs, even from people who are neve…
California superintendent race shows Democrats split on school reform
(This version of the story corrects April 25 story to political consultant Hefner is Torlakson’s campaign manager instead of Tuck’s, paragraph 17)
