Connecticut state attorneys have asked the state Supreme Court to revisit the 2012 repeal on death penalty as inapplicable to those who had been in death row at that time. Their arguments focus on 11 inmates convicted during the repeal and whose legal status remains ambiguous up to now.
Two suspected jewel thieves were arrested by the FBI for various heists across the Southern region. The FBI arrested the suspects after receiving credible leads from the public.
Mary Sodora, 51, was charged with felony DWI by Orangetown police because of a past conviction in the same case a decade earlier.
Bangladesh’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against the head of the country’s largest Islamist party for war crimes during the country’s 1971 fight for independence from Pakistan. Bangladesh said that the death sentence is necessary to heal the wounds of those affected by the war.
