South Carolina Executes First Death Row Inmate In 13 Years
(South Carolina Department of Corrections) OAN Staff Avril ElfiSaturday, September 21, 2024 10:24 AM South Carolina executed a death row inmate by lethal injection for the first time in 13 years. advertisement Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, formerly known as Freddie Owens, was executed by lethal injection at the Broad River Correctional Facility in Columbia, […]
Insurgent Parties’ Best Chance to Break Through in 100 Years: Farage
Nigel Farage said on Friday that widespread discontent with established politics offered a unique opportunity for a new party to make a real breakthrough. Speaking at the summer conference of Reform UK, the party he founded and which has now handed over control of the party to its members, Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage called […]
Man arrested in Italy nearly 50 years after two Melbourne women found dead in their home | Melbourne
A man has been arrested in Italy on suspicion of murdering two women, Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett, whose bodies were found in their home in Easy Street, Collingwood, Melbourne in 1977. The 65-year-old man, a dual Greek-Australian national, was arrested at Rome airport on Thursday evening AED time. Victoria Police will seek an extradition […]
South Carolina inmate dies by lethal injection in state’s first execution in 13 years
South Carolina executed death row inmate Freddie Owens on Friday, unintentionally resuming a 13-year hiatus after prison officials were unable to obtain the drugs needed to administer the lethal injection. Owens was convicted in 1997 of killing a Greenville convenience store clerk during a robbery. During the trial, Owens murdered a county jail inmate. His […]
South Carolina executes first man in 13 years despite new evidence of innocence | South Carolina
South Carolina executed a death row inmate on Friday, just days after a key prosecution witness argued that the defendant lied at trial and that the state was executing an innocent man. Khalil Devine Black Sun Allah, 46, was killed by lethal injection at approximately 7 p.m. His lawyers filed an emergency motion for a […]
Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Miner Moves Coins for First Time in 15 Years – Decrypt
On-chain data shows that some of the first Bitcoin ever mined is still showing signs of life, more than 15 years after it first entered circulation. Starting early Friday morning, at least five separate Bitcoin block rewards have been moved to new addresses for the first time since they were mined as part of a […]
House passes bill blocking Biden admin attempt to require two-thirds of new cars to be electric within years
An attempt by the Biden administration to set new emissions standards for electric vehicles was blocked by a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Friday. In March, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final rule setting new emissions standards under the Clean Air Act that will require up to two-thirds of new cars sold by […]
NYC gunman who shot up Jacobi ER sentenced 12 years in prison
A crazed gunman who opened fire in the emergency room of Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx two years ago, nearly shooting a mother holding her baby, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Kevel Martinez, 25, was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to first-degree assault in the Jan. 25, 2022, shooting that wounded […]
Federal Agent Sentenced To Over 11 Years In Prison For Planning Sex With Minor
A federal agent has been sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison for traveling to eastern Washington with plans to have sex with a 13-year-old girl. Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Coby Don Williams was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. Judge Thomas Rice. Tri-City Herald. He was convicted in May of “attempted […]
Historic Churchill Portrait Recovered in Italy Two Years After Theft
ROME (AP) — Canadian and Italian officials celebrated Thursday the safe recovery of a photographic portrait of Winston Churchill known as the “Roaring Lion” that was stolen in Canada and recovered in Italy after a two-year police search. At a ceremony at the Canadian Embassy in Rome, Italian police officials presented the portrait to Canadian […]