A federal judge on Thursday blocked the execution of a Texas man after an appeals court ruled earlier this week that the Justice Department’s protocols for execution violate federal law. Orlando Hall, 49, would have been the eighth person executed by the federal government this year after a 17-year hiatus, Reuters reported. Hall, an African-American …
Reporters claimed they spotted ‘steam or smoke’ coming off the side of Lee Hall’s head during his execution
Bobby Joe Long, who was convicted of murdering at least nine women and in the 1980s, is scheduled to be executed on Thursday after the Florida Supreme Court declined his third appeal. According to the Tampa Bay Times, the panel unanimously dismissed all seven claims Long, 65, brought forth, including a challenge to the state’s …
Police are investigating a double slaying after finding a Texas couple bound and shot execution-style inside their home in a gated community. The Houston Chronicle reported that Bao and Jenny Lam, both 61, were both found shot to death late Sunday inside their ransacked Spring home. “Everything was disturbed. Furniture was overturned, drawers were opened. It …
