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South Carolina inmate picks a firing squad over the electric chair : NPR
Richard Moore, who is scheduled for execution later this month, has chosen to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair. South Carolina Dept. of Corrections via AP hide caption toggle caption South Carolina Dept. of Corrections via AP Richard Moore, who is scheduled for execution later this month, has chosen to die …
Knox County Detention Center using light technology to disinfect jail | Local News
KNOX COUNTY — Knox County Jailer Mary Hammons announced that the county’s detention center has incorporated hospital-grade UV-C light technology into its disinfection protocols to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Jailer Hammons and her team partnered with Command Sourcing, Inc., an industry leader in corrections technology support, to deploy R-Zero’s UV-C disinfection system, Arc. “We …
Inmate mistakenly released in Jackson County, MS back in custody – WKRG News 5
(WKRG) — The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board will hold a virtual Emergency Board meeting on Monday, Dec. 14, at 9:30 a.m. to consider an amendment to authorize emergency curbside sales. The amendment would allow on-premise licensees to again sell alcoholic beverages to go. The original “Curbside Sales Authorization” expired Sept. 15. The board said …
Total COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin prison system break 5,000; active cases at 2,000 | Local News
The New Lisbon Correctional Institution in Juneau County had a nearly tenfold increase in active COVID-19 cases from Wednesday to Thursday, with cases skyrocketing from 31 to 305. CHRISTOPHER JARDINE, Juneau County Star-Times Emily Hamer | Wisconsin State Journal The total number of COVID-19 cases in the Wisconsin prison system broke 5,000 for the first …
Lisa Montgomery to be first female federal inmate executed in 67 years | World news
The US is set to execute a female federal inmate for the first time in 67 years, Donald Trump’s justice department has said. Lisa Montgomery, who strangled a Missouri woman in 2004 and stole her unborn baby, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at the US penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, on 8 December. …
Federal inmate executed after Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday
His execution is the seventh federal execution since the Justice Department restarted the practice this summer after a 17-year hiatus. Thursday’s unsigned order from the Supreme Court was the Court’s second refusal to stop a federal execution this week. The Court denied the stay request of William LeCroy on Tuesday in an order that marked …
U.S. Plans to Execute Inmate Who Murdered Two Youth Ministers – The New York Times
U.S. Plans to Execute Inmate Who Murdered Two Youth Ministers The New York Times The US plans to execute a man for a crime he committed at 19. Scientists say the research on brain development makes that wrong CNN System Stacked Against Condemned Inmate, Other Black Defendants, Lawyers Say NPR Black inmate on death row for killings in …
Coronavirus outbreak found at Wind River Reservation jail, health official says | Wyoming News
More than 31 percent of the state’s cases have come from those who identify as American Indian, according to state data as of Thursday afternoon. Ebbert said that can be attributed to the mass testing and contact tracing the tribes have conducted and not an outbreak that is any worse than other spots …
BREAKING: St. Clair state prison inmate with COVID-19 dies; cause of death undetermined | Free
ST. CLAIR COUNTY — The Alabama Department of Corrections on Friday reported the first three confirmed cases of COVID-19 within its prisons. One of the diagnosed inmates, a 66-year-old with a terminal illness, died Thursday, but an official cause of death has not yet been determined, the ADOC said in a statement on its website. …
BREAKING NEWS: ‘Dangerous’ Bordelais inmate on the run; four other escapees caught
By St. Lucia News Online March 21, 2020 Share This On: (St. Lucia News Online) — Law enforcement officials are searching for one of five inmates who escaped from the Bordelais Correctional Facility on Saturday around 6 p.m. Four of the prisoners were caught shortly after they escaped. They were reportedly nabbed in the vicinity …
