A Utah death row inmate who killed his sister-and-law and her child is reportedly months away from being executed by a firing squad after a federal court rejected his latest appeal on Monday. After breaking into their sister-in-law and her husband’s home, Ron Lafferty and his brother, Dan Lafferty, reportedly beat and strangled Brenda Lafferty, …
Authorities in Arizona say two former correctional officers have resigned amid claims that they participated in a recent assault on an inmate. According to KPHO, Alfredo Reyes and Javier Chavez are accused of playing a part in staging the scene for a brutal beating inside a Tucson prison. Among the alleged acts investigators say helped …
An Alabama woman who was imprisoned for fatally shooting her husband in 2015 was reportedly placed in a work-release program less than three years into her 40-year sentence. Two months ago, Cindy Kaye Henderson Reese was moved from the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women to the Birmingham Work Release Center. AL.com reported that the facility …
Everett Palmer Jr.’s family alleged they received his body badly bruised and without his heart, brain, and throat
A former sergeant at a Rosharon, Texas, prison is set to go to trial later this year on charges of aggravated assault in connection with the death of inmate David Witt, pictured above, in 2017. According to Fox News, the incident was caught on surveillance footage and Lou Joffrion received a recommendation to be fired …
Nearly four years after being found dead in a Texas jail cell, footage of the police confrontation which preceded Sandra Bland’s arrest has been released to the public for the first time. According to The New York Times, Bland, 28, recorded part of her encounter with then-trooper Brian Encinia, where he’s seen threatening Bland and …
An internal investigation is underway after an incarcerated woman with a mental illness reportedly gave birth in a jail cell despite asking staffers for help. According to the Miami Herald, Tammy Jackson, 34, had her daughter at North Broward Bureau jail on the morning of April 10. She reportedly told jail staff that she was …
Reports indicate the woman sentenced to prison for her role in murdering her abusive mother has found romance behind bars. According to People, Gypsy Rose Blanchard has sparked a relationship with a pen pal and the two are engaged to be married. One family friend said Blanchard is “very happy” about the news. “You can …
A North Carolina county has agreed to a preliminary settlement with the family of a 17-year-old girl who officials said took her own life in 2017 while jailed on murder charges. Durham County is awaiting approval from the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina before they pay the family of Uniece Glenae …
A Mississippi Army veteran who allegedly decapitated his mother last summer with a butter knife, his teeth, and hands had bitten off part of an inmate’s face three years earlier, according to a lawsuit filed by the inmate. The Mississippi Clarion Ledger reported that Jaron Stubbs claimed he sustained the facial injuries in June 2015 while jailed …
A Texas man became the oldest inmate on the state’s death row to be killed since the reinstatement of capital punishment nearly four decades ago. According to the New York Daily News, 70-year-old Billie Wayne Coble counted five witnesses in the observation area on Thursday evening and addressed his enigmatic final comments to them. “Yes …
“They know they made bad mistakes, bad choices, but they want to do the right thing in life.”
