The crux of the prosecution’s case was based on the claim that a revolver taken from Hinton’s mother’s home was used in both the murders, although there were no witnesses to either murder or any fingerprints at the scene.
Guantanamo prison ex-chief Geoffrey Miller has been summoned by a French court over the use of torture in the detention facility a decade ago, following a lawsuit from two French citizens who were former inmates of the infamous military jail.
Oklahoma lawmakers are pushing for the state to become the first to allow the use of nitrogen gas as a back-up method to execute death row prisoners. The bill passed the state Senate Judiciary Committee and will now head to the floor for a vote.
Oklahoma lawmakers are pushing for the state to become the first to allow the use of nitrogen gas as a back-up method to execute death row prisoners. The bill passed the state Senate Judiciary Committee and will now head to the floor for a vote.
The Committee voted 8-0 on Tuesday to move forward with a House-passed measure that would grant the use of nitrogen gas in executions. Under the bill, lethal injection would remain the state’s primary method of execution, but using a gas chamber would be an alternative should lethal injection be declared unconstitutional or the drugs become unavailable.
A Ferguson judge singled out by the Justice Department for the aggressive fines he has handed out reportedly owes the Internal Revenue Service about $170,000.
Judge Ronald Brockmeyer has a backlog of taxes due to the US government going back to 2007, according to the Guardian. The judge’s fining policies were singled out by the DOJ investigation into the Ferguson Police Department and city court system, and were found to be aggressive and used to unfairly target African Americans.
Police in Seattle have launched a YouTube channel to share officer body camera footage with the public, while using software written by local developers to blur and redact the videos in a bid to protect privacy.
Facing a flood of requests for public disclosure, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) was at a loss on how to efficiently redact the videos in order to protect the privacy of both officers and suspects. According to a Seattle Times report, the SPD has collected more than 1.5 million videos – 364 terabytes – over the past five years.
The software currently being tested was conceived during the December 2014 'hackathon,' following the SPD’s call for help to local tech talent. Initial videos uploaded to the channel (SPD BodyWornVideo) were taken at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day protest.
Rape kit backlogs in American cities delay justice for many
Growing number of inmates found innocent in US prisons
An increasing number of prisoners are being set free after they were found to have been wrongly convicted, according to a new report from the University of Michigan that is raising eyebrows. Breaking down the 125 exonerations in 2014, the study’s authors found that the defendants in 47 cases had originally pleaded guilty despite being innocent, and in 58 instances, no crime had actually been committed. RT’s Manuel Rapalo explores.