The execution of Carey Dean Moore went forward on Tuesday after a federal appeals court denied a drug company’s request to halt the lethal injection over concerns about whether the drugs were obtained improperly by the state.
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By a 6-to-3 vote, the high court Monday voided the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA). The law barred state-authorized sports gambling with some exceptions. Thirty-two states may move to offer sports betting.
Mark Conditt, 23, died as SWAT officers approached his car. Conditt, who was thought to be responsible for six bombs, was traced through FedEx transactions.
Juan Perez, director of the Miami-Dade Police Department, raised the possibility of criminal charges tied to the collapse of the Florida International University pedestrian bridge. “We’ve got to look at the reality that there may be some negligence down the line,” Perez said.
Ruckman, 58, editor of the “Pardon Power blog,” was found dead in an apparent murder-suicide. He was a professor of political science at Rock Valley College in Illinois.
Brooke Rollins of the Texas Public Policy Foundation is joining the White House staff to work with Jared Kushner, who is advising President Trump on criminal-justice reforms.
A 15-year-old boy opened fire with a handgun in his high school, killing two classmates and wounding a dozen others before being arrested. The incident happened at Marshall County High School in southwestern Kentucky.
The justices will start their 2017-2018 term on Monday. On Thursday, they added cases involving several criminal law issues, including the Fifth Amendment’s self-incrimination clause, requirements for a search warrant, and whether a defense attorney can concede a client’s guilt over the defendant’s objection.
Florida law enforcement played double duty saving the stranded and needy while also arresting alleged thieves for swiping goods from businesses and homes after one of the largest evacuations in Florida’s history.
The victims had been watching the Dallas Cowboys when the violence began, neighbors said. Two other people at the home were hospitalized. The episode was attributed by a friend of one of the homeowners to a domestic dispute, but no details were immediately available.