Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey facing ‘surgery without anesthesia’: lawyer

The Missouri Supreme Court rejected a stay of execution bid for a death row inmate condemned to die next week – despite his lawyer’s warnings that he faces state-sanctioned surgery without ... Read More

Death row inmate Brian Dorsey to be executed for murdering cousin and husband almost 20 years ago

A death row inmate who murdered his cousin and her husband ... Four of the 24 executions in the US this year were in Missouri. Read More

Advocacy groups say Texas inmates are 'being cooked to death' in state prisons without air conditioning

The filing says nearly 70% of Texas Department of Criminal Justice prisons lack air conditioning and units routinely reach 100 degrees or higher. Read More

Death row inmate asks to be executed as he gives up appeal so victims’ families have ‘justice’

one victim Chelsea Marie Reed was pregnant at the time of her death, and no longer wishes to appeal his execution. He wrote letters to key Alabama officials including Governor, Attorney General St ... Read More

Missouri prison agency to pay $60K for Sunshine Law violations over inmate death records

The Missouri Department of Corrections must pay the fine for refusing to give records to a mother trying to find out how her son died in 2021 while in state custody. Read More

Missouri death row inmate faces execution today despite pleas from prison guards

Dorsey was sentenced to death for the 23 December 2006 killing, a punishment affirmed in appeals to courts at the state, federal, and US Supreme ... for inmates and the occasional prison staff ... Read More

Inmate's death ruled a homicide, coroner says

THE CORONER TELLS US THAT ... "The death is being investigated by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. OCONEE COUNTY, S.C. — The Oconee County Coroner said an inmate's death has been ... Read More

Retrial Underway for Ex-Corrections Officer Charged in Ohio Inmate's Death

Retrial Underway for Ex-Corrections Officer Charged in Ohio Inmate's Death MANSFIELD ... and was expected to continue Tuesday. The Ohio attorney general’s office is now prosecuting the case ... Read More

Death row inmate who killed five, including pregnant woman, says he wants to be executed

Dearman was charged with six homicides, including the death of Ms Reed’s fetus, in accordance with the state’s fetal homicide law. Earlier this month, the man told NBC News that he’d mailed ... Read More

Sobbing ‘Rust’ armorer Hannah Gutierrez given maximum 18 month sentence in fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins

“Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed sobbed Monday as she was sentenced to 18 months in prison over the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins, whose mother told the court “time does not heal.” ... Read More

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Inmate stabbed to death at Lusignan Prison

A 23-year-old prisoner from the Lusignan prison died yesterday afternoon at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was stabbed by another prisoner. According to a Guyana Prison Service ... Read More