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A scheduled execution in Florida will not happen on Tuesday. It comes after the Florida Supreme Court refused to lift the stay of execution it granted to the former police officer. James Duckett was convicted of sexual battery and the murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1987. His legal team requested DNA testing, which they hoped would clear Duckett, and the results were inconclusive. Florida’s Attorney General then requested that the stay of execution be lifted, but the Florida Supreme Court refused. Grace Hanna is the Executive Director for Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. “It’s very rare, particularly...

Three alleged members of MS-13 hunted humans across California and Nevada during a murder spree to boost their standing in the gang, a court has heard. Joel Vargas-Escobar, David Arturo Perez-Manchame and Jose Luis Reynaldo Reyes-Castillo, face charges including murder, attempted murder and kidnapping in aid of racketeering, and weapons charges in connection with the brutal killing of 11 people from 2017 to 2018 in California and Nevada. In the Lloyd D. George courthouse in Vegas on Monday, the jury was told the three alleged Salvadoran gangsters looked for people they could mutilate and abduct most nights. They went out...

A Paris court on Monday began hearings in a major trial involving 22 suspects accused of murder and other serious crimes on behalf of a mafia network inside the Athanor Masonic Lodge in the Paris suburb of Puteaux. The accused include police officers, former French intelligence agents and businessmen. Twenty-two people went on trial in France on Monday on charges of murder and other serious crimes centred on members of a Masonic lodge accused of running hit squads. Thirteen of the defendants face life imprisonment. Those in the dock include four military personnel from France's foreign intelligence service (DGSE), two...

To Kill Without a TracePosted By Mark Tapson On March 24, 2015 @ 12:21 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 3 Comments On July 18, 1994, a van loaded with explosives destroyed the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA), murdering 85 innocents and injuring over 300. The government accused Hezbollah, but it was not until 2006 that sufficient legal evidence was gathered to request warrants for the arrest of those allegedly responsible.On January 19, 2015, the chief investigator of the case, prosecutor Alberto Nisman, was found murdered (though it had been made to look like a suicide). Nisman had been on the verge of...

An ex-security staffer for President Joe Biden who posed for pics with former VP Kamala Harris in front of a presidential jet was arrested for a chilling murder in San Francisco. Nation Wood, 25, was arrested Wednesday, just 24 hours after he allegedly shot and killed Samantha Emge, 22, a 2025 graduate of San Francisco State University, at a home in San Francisco’s Sunset District. Wood identified himself as a part-time security staffer for Biden’s White House Secret Service team starting in November 2023 on his LinkedIn profile. He worked at the White House through July 2025, finishing out his...

“I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants,” Pedro Sanchez headlined his New York Times op-ed. “The West needs people. Currently, few of its countries have a rising population growth rate. Unless they embrace migration, they will experience a sharp demographic decline.” Spain’s demographic decline is helped along by the nearly 1,000 euthanasia cases a year. Those who die are replaced with the growing flood of Muslim championed by Sanchez. The West needs people, but only certain kinds of people, and it euthanizes the wrong kind. Spain’s population is set to shrink by one more...

Twisted triple killer Valdo Calocane is being housed behind a thick panel of glass at one of the UK's few high-security psychiatric hospitals due to the extreme danger he poses to his fellow patients. Calocane, 34, a paranoid schizophrenic who was diagnosed in 2020, has spent the last two years locked up at Ashworth High Secure Hospital in Maghull, near Liverpool, after he was found guilty of murdering Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates. He killed the students and granddad, and attempted to kill a further three people in a vicious Nottingham murder spree on June 13, 2023. He...

An illegal Venezuelan migrant accused of executing a Loyola University Chicago freshman from New York entered the US under the Biden administration, and was released under Chicago’s sanctuary city laws before the killing, the Department of Homeland Security said Sunday. Jose Medina-Medina, 25, allegedly murdered 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman early Thursday morning while she walked along the Chicago lakefront with her friends, according to a DHS release obtained by Fox News. The illegal alien was caught and released at the border under President Joe Biden’s administration in May 2023, according to the DHS. Medina-Medina was also previously released from local custody...

Dayton Webber, 27, a professional cornhole player, is accused of fatally shooting 27-year-old Bradrick Michael Wells during an argument in La Plata, Maryland. Police say Webber shot Wells inside a car, then drove off with the victim’s body before it was later found in a yard in Charlotte Hall. Webber was arrested at a Virginia hospital and faces first- and second-degree murder charges as he awaits extradition to Charles County.

Messages sent to an A-I chatbot were at the center of a preliminary hearing for a former NFL player charged with first-degree murder. Investigators say dozens of messages between Darron Lee and ChatGPT were presented in court as prosecutors outlined their case surrounding the death of Lee’s girlfriend, Gabriella Perpetuo, who was found dead inside their Ooltewah home. Hamilton County Sheriff’s Detective Brian Lockhart testified that Lee contacted the chatbot just a day before Perpetuo’s death, describing a disturbing situation.

A man allegedly drove his car into a family on an evening walk, then opened fire, killing a 3-year-old child in the process. On Feb. 17, Alexander Lamar Banks, 21, was arraigned on one count of first-degree premeditated murder, three counts of assault with intent to murder, four counts of felony firearm, one count of possession of a dangerous weapon w/unlawful intent and one charge of possession of loaded firearm in vehicle, according to a press release from the Eaton County authorities in Michigan. A couple and their 3-year-old daughter, whom they pulled along in a pink wagon, were walking...

JPD issued the following statement. On Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at approximately 11:14 am, 21-year-old Kaitlyn Mangum-Gast and a 36-year-old male were riding on one bicycle in the 4800 block of Chastain Drive when a white pickup truck driven by 57-year-old Shannon Thomas crashed into them. Shannon Thomas During the follow-up investigation of this case, detectives discovered that the incident was intentional. It is now being investigated as city’s 13th homicide. On today, Friday, March 6, 2026, Shannon was arrested by JPD. He was booked into JPD holding and charged with Murder, Attempted Murder and Leaving the Scene. His vehicle...

Four illegal migrants, who are members of the notorious MS-13 gang, have been indicted after they allegedly brutally murdered a 14-year-old boy in a Maryland park. Jose Vladimir Merlos, 18, Alam Josai Garcia-Padilla, 21, William Cuellar Gutierrez, 19, and a 17-year-old were indicted on charges, including first-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and participation in a criminal organization, according to Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Tara Jackson. All four indicted are MS-13 gang members and illegal immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed. Jefferson Amaya-Ayala, 14, of Washington, DC, was reported missing on...

Canada performed thousands of same-day assisted suicides, as it was revealed one elderly woman was killed despite withdrawing her request the day before. The medical assistance in dying (MAiD) program was approved in 2016 and has since been expanded to include requests from patients whose deaths are 'not reasonably foreseeable,' and will soon include those with mental illness. More than 200 people in Ontario alone chose to die within 24 hours of their approval in 2023, a 2024 Ontario report found, The Free Press first reported. Of the 219 deaths, 30 percent of them chose a same-day procedure. In 2024...

A man already accused of stabbing four people was free to strike again — and last week that man, Abdul Jalloh, was arrested, this time for murder. A Richmond Highway bus stop became a bloody crime scene last week. Jalloh was charged with murder, accused of fatally stabbing Stephanie Minter. Larry Gross said when he heard about the crime, it reminded him of when he was attacked in February 2023. Gross said he was pulling his shopping cart to a Richmond Highway 7-Eleven near his townhouse when Jalloh came at him, first stealing his cellphone. “He came right at me,...

In May 2025, a 15-year-old migrant gunned down a 52-year-old father in Sweden, after being paid almost twenty thousand euros in a murder-for-hire plot; the killer is currently in prison, sentenced to a brief three years and six months, meaning he should be out some time in 2029. Upon his release, prosecutors were asking that the “boy” be repatriated back to his country of origin, but the judges with the power to decide rejected the request, “ruling that expulsion would be disproportionate given the boy’s personal circumstances.” (The “boy” had come to Sweden as a child.) Mind you, the “boy”...

Police in Cleveland, Ohio, are asking the public for tips after two young Black girls were found dead inside separate suitcases buried in shallow graves on Monday. Cleveland Police Chief Dorothy Todd said during a news conference that the girls, believed to be between the ages of 8 and 13 and 10 and 14, were found Monday evening. The discovery was made Monday evening after a man walking his dog near East 162nd Street and Midland Avenue, in a field near Ginn Academy, found a partially buried suitcase and called police. Police responded and located a shallow grave and found...

A man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years after being found guilty of murdering a nine-year-old girl as she played with a hula hoop. Deividas Skebas, 26, stabbed Lilia Valutyte to death in a random attack outside the shop where her mother worked in Boston, Lincolnshire, on 28 July 2022. He admitted killing Lilia but denied her murder, claiming his responsibility was diminished by his mental state. However, a jury at Lincoln Crown Court convicted him following an eight-day trial earlier this month. Sentencing, Mr Justice Akhlaq Choudhury told Skebas, who showed little emotion,...

The BriefA California appeals court ruled Friday that Antolin Garcia-Torres, convicted in the 2012 kidnapping and killing of 15-year-old Sierra LaMar, may be entitled to a new trial because prosecutors improperly combined unrelated 2009 kidnapping charges with the murder case. The teen disappeared in Morgan Hill in March 2012 and was never found. Garcia-Torres was convicted in 2017 and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The man convicted in the 2012 kidnapping and killing of Morgan Hill teenager Sierra LaMar may get a new trial following a court ruling filed Friday. California's Sixth Appellate District Court...

One person is in custody today after the shooting death of Brandon "James" Petree, of Killeen, Texas. Petree was a campaign aide of "Doc" Pete Chambers. The Killeen Police Department, which announced on Thursday that it was investigating the shooting that resulted in the death of Brandon James Petree, called the shooting a murder. While no charges have been filed, KPD has detained a person in the shooting. That person is still in the city jail. Wednesday, February 25 at around 10:20 PM, KPD officers were called about a shooting off Splawn Ranch Road and Zayden Drive in Killeen. When...