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US judge: Nevada inmate’s execution challenge may be moot

Apr 26, 2022

A federal judge in Las Vegas said Monday he’ll decide in three weeks whether to dismiss a condemned Nevada killer’s lawsuit challenging the state’s plan for his lethal injection, because the state

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This undated photo provided by St. Louis County Justice Services shows Perez Reed, who was charged Saturday in the shooting deaths of 16-year-old Marnay Haynes on Sept. 13 and 40-year-old Lester Robinson on Sept. 26.

Police say one man is tied to multiple killings in Missouri and Kansas

Nov 09, 2021
Perez Reed is facing charges of murder and assault in shootings that occurred in the St. Louis County area. The gun used in those attacks has been tied to other killings in St. Louis and Kansas.
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September 30, 2021

Sep 30, 2021
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FBI Data Shows An Unprecedented Spike In Murders Nationwide In 2020

Sep 27, 2021
The number of murders in the U.S. rose nearly 30% in 2020 compared with the previous year, according to FBI statistics. It is the largest single-year increase since the record-keeping began.
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Newscast headlines

Henderson Police Arrest Man In Connection With Wife's Death

Mar 15, 2021

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Police in Henderson say a 77-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of his wife.

In a call received around 1 a.m. Saturday, police say the man identified himself and told them that he had killed his wife.

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Law
Corey Johnson was executed by lethal injection at the Terre Haute, Ind. federal prison Thursday night. He is the 12th inmate there to be executed since July under the Trump administration.

Federal Government Executes Corey Johnson For 1992 Murders

Jan 15, 2021
Corey Johnson is the 12th inmate to die by lethal injection since July, when the Trump administration restarted federal executions after a 17 year hiatus.
Fifth Street

November 25, 2020

Nov 25, 2020
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Lawyers For Man Accused Of Murders Request Delayed Trial

Aug 19, 2020

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Lawyers for a Salvadoran immigrant charged on accusations of killing four people in Nevada are asking a judge to postpone his murder trial indefinitely.

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World
A police forensic investigation team walks near the site where 39 bodies were discovered in the back of a truck on Wednesday in Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, England. Police believe the truck is from Bulgaria, a member of the European Union, and t

39 Bodies Discovered In Truck Container In Southeast England

Oct 23, 2019
British officials say they believe the truck originated in Bulgaria and arrived in the U.K. over the weekend. A man from Northern Ireland is in custody.
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National
Fired Dallas police officer Amber Guyger becomes emotional as she testifies in her murder trial on Friday. She told police she thought that her neighbor's apartment was her own and that he was an intruder.

'I Hate Myself,' Former Dallas Police Officer Who Killed Neighbor Tells Jurors

Sep 27, 2019
In her first public comments about the shooting, Amber Guyger says she was scared Botham Jean was going to kill her when she shot him in his home last September.
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Book Reviews

Could A Novel Lead Someone To Kill? 'Murder By The Book' Explores The Notion

Mar 27, 2019
Author Claire Harman writes that one reason François Benjamin Courvoisier gave for why he murdered his boss Lord William Russell in 1840 was that he wanted to model himself on a book character.
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Latin America
Forensic personnel load the corpse of a man into a van, after he was executed at a shopping mall in Acapulco, Mexico, on April 24, 2018. A new report recorded more than 33,000 homicides in 2018, making it the country's deadliest on record.

Mexico Reports Highest Ever Homicide Rate In 2018, Tops 33,000 Investigations

Jan 23, 2019

The grim news was expected as the number of open homicide cases continued to climb month after month, making the last 12 months the deadliest on record — an average of 91 deaths per day.

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4 Nevada Killings May Be Linked; FBI Joins Probe

Jan 19, 2019
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The FBI has joined an investigation into four killings in northern Nevada that may be linked, including the former president of the Reno Rodeo and his wife who authorities said were shot to death in their home earlier this week.

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National
Christopher Watts in court for his arraignment hearing at the Weld County Courthouse in August in Greeley, Colo.

Colorado Man Pleads Guilty To Strangling Wife, 2 Young Daughters

Nov 07, 2018
Christopher Watts, 33, had gone on television in August to call for the safe return of his wife and children. But the bodies of the three were later discovered dumped in an oil field.
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National
Trina Singleton was devastated when her 24-year-old son, Darryl, was shot to death. The Philadelphia Obituary Project, founded by attorney Cletus Lyman, gave her a way to celebrate her son's life and manage her grief.

The Philadelphia Obituary Project Chronicles Lives Lost To Violence

Feb 06, 2018
A new project is attempting to write an obituary of every homicide victim in Philadelphia, just as the city grapples with a spike in murders. The aim is to put human faces to the grim statistic.
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Parallels
Spent bullet casings litter a road after authorities reported a gun battle outside Mazatlan, Mexico, in July 2017, a year marked by the highest homicides in at least decades.

Mexico Registers Its Highest Homicides On Record

Jan 25, 2018
The country racked up nearly 30,000 homicides in 2017, the most since it began reporting the statistic in 1997. But that doesn't make it the "most dangerous" country as President Trump claimed.
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National
People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas after gunfire was heard.

After A Vow To End 'This American Carnage,' A Year Of Deadly Violence

Dec 27, 2017
Though America saw the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in 2017, efforts to enact new gun laws, once again, stalled in Congress.
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The Two-Way
Florida State Prison in Raiford, Fla., where Mark James Asay was held after being sentenced to die for two murders he committed in 1987.

Florida Man Is First To Die Under New Lethal Injection Protocol

Aug 24, 2017
Mark James Asay was convicted of killing two people in 1987. He was the first white person to be executed in Florida for killing a black person.
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The Two-Way

Second Man Charged In Deaths Of Four In Pennsylvania

Jul 14, 2017
Authorities have charged Sean Kratz, 20, in connection with the deaths of four men last week a day after Cosmo DiNardo confessed to the murders.
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The Two-Way

Police Identify 1 Of 4 Missing Men In Common Grave In Rural Pennsylvania

Jul 13, 2017
"This was a homicide. Make no doubt about it," says Bucks County District Attorney Matthew D. Weintraub.
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Goats and Soda
A photo of Courtney Pieters. The 3-year-old was missing for 9 days, then found in a shallow grave about two-thirds of a mile from her home. She had been raped twice.

This 3-Year-Old's Murder Is Part Of South Africa's Alarming 'Epidemic'

May 26, 2017
Courtney Pieters' death this month made headlines and sparked an outcry. The country is only now beginning to address its high rate of child murder.
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The Two-Way
Davontae Sanford stands with his mother, Taminko Sanford, following his release after nine years in prison for murders he did not commit. He was one of 52 people exonerated for murder in 2016, according to a new report.

Black People Are Wrongly Convicted Of Murder More Often, Data Show

Mar 07, 2017
More than half of the 52 people exonerated of murder last year in the U.S. were black, an annual report found. The number of people exonerated also hit a record high for the third year in a row.
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U.S.
Darren Alridge works as a "para-instructor" at the Youth Empowerment Project. He says police have yet to convince him that they're serious about bringing killers to justice in his community.

New Orleans And The Hard Work Of Pushing Down The Murder Rate

Feb 23, 2017
President Trump is promising to crack down on crime. But police crackdowns have already been tried in cities such as New Orleans, which is now enduring a resurgence in homicide.
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The Two-Way
A new study finds meerkats are the most murderous mammals.

What Meerkat Murder Tells Us About Human Violence

Sep 28, 2016
What is the most murderous mammal? A new study says it's the meerkat. But the study argues that over all of human history, humans are still more lethally violent than the average mammal.
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The Two-Way
Ingmar Guandique is escorted from the Violent Crimes Unit by police in Washington, D.C., in 2009.

Prosecutors Move To Drop Murder Charges Against Man Accused Of Killing Chandra Levy

Jul 28, 2016
Prosecutors say information received this week means Ingmar Guandique, who was convicted in 2010, should not face a new trial. Levy was a 24-year-old intern in D.C. when she was murdered in 2001.

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