FRANKFORT, Ky. — For a governor who had invariably made the political personal, it was a pointedly personal outcome on Thursday when Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky bowed to the inevitable and conceded after a recanvass of votes showed clearly that the Democrat Andy Beshear would be the state’s next governor.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin on Thursday conceded to Attorney General Andy Beshear after a recanvass of votes confirmed Beshear’s victory in last week’s governor’s election.
HECTOR, Ark. — In early December, if nothing else changes, Daniel Lewis Lee will be the first federal prisoner put to death in nearly two decades. He was sentenced 20 years ago after being convicted — along with another man, both white supremacists on the hunt for guns and cash — of taping bags over the heads of a husband, wife and 8-year-old girl, tying rocks around them and throwing them into a bayou.
HECTOR, Ark. — In early December, if nothing else changes, Daniel Lewis Lee will be the first federal prisoner put to death in nearly two decades. He was sentenced 20 years ago after being convicted — along with another man, both white supremacists on the hunt for guns and cash — of taping bags over the heads of a husband, wife and 8-year-old girl, tying rocks around them and throwing them into a bayou.
MANSFIELD, Ohio — When they gather near Columbus for their fourth debate, Democrats will be coming to a state that, if not “great again,” is by many accounts doing quite OK, certainly much better than a decade ago.
FLEMING-NEON, Ky. — In the pre-dawn hours when all is dark and quiet, Amanda Lucas leaves her house and begins the long drive to her job at a hospital an hour away.
PITTSBURGH — Federal prosecutors said on Monday that they would seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing 11 worshippers in a Pittsburgh synagogue in October, in what has been called the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
CINCINNATI — On a drizzly morning last summer, Patricia Jackson opened her door to two strangers. They told her they had come on behalf of a man named Angelo Robinson.
For all the talk of curbing America’s appetite for mass incarceration and bipartisan support for reducing prison sentences, the number of people incarcerated in the United States declined only slightly in 2017, according to data released Thursday by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics.
The number of people in prisons and jails in the United States declined slightly in 2017, according to data released on Thursday by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, a decrease driven by policy changes at the state and federal level, but still leaving the country with, by far, the largest known incarcerated population in the world.
The number of people in prisons and jails in the United States declined slightly in 2017, according to data released Thursday by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, a decrease driven by policy changes at the state and federal level, but still leaving the country with, by far, the largest known incarcerated population in the world.
There is a dance that takes place every weekday in cities and towns across the country, and it begins with people walking outside to look at their tires.
John William King, 44, convicted two decades ago for killing James Byrd Jr. in an act of unfathomable racist brutality in the small town of Jasper, was put to death by the state of Texas on Wednesday night with a dose of pentobarbital.
John William King, 44, convicted two decades ago for killing James Byrd Jr. in an act of unfathomable racist brutality in the small town of Jasper, was put to death by the state of Texas on Wednesday night with a dose of pentobarbital.
On Wednesday evening around 6 p.m., Louvon Harris will be in Huntsville, Texas, about 70 miles north of Houston, for an appointment. She will sit and listen to the words, if any, from the man who tortured and killed her oldest brother over two decades ago in an act of unfathomable racist brutality. Then she will watch the state of Texas put him to death.
PITTSBURGH — Last summer, a woman in northern Alabama who law enforcement officials said was a prostitute typed a message to a doctor: “Can u get any Xanax.”
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