The only Native American on federal death row is scheduled to be executed in late August, the U.S. government announced Wednesday. Navajo man Lezmond Mitchell, 37, is set to die on August 26 by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terra Haute, Indiana, where he’s being held. If it proceeds it will be … Read more
The U.S. government has carried out the first federal execution in almost two decades, putting to death a man who killed an Arkansas family in a 1990s in a plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest. The execution came over the objection of the victims’ family. Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, of Yukon, … Read more
A German neo-Nazi went on trial on Tuesday for the murder of pro-refugee politician Walter Luebcke. His killing in June 2019 shocked the country and highlighted the growing threat of right-wing extremism. Federal prosecutors say the main suspect, 46-year-old Stephan Ernst, was motivated by ‘racism and xenophobia’ when he allegedly shot Luebcke in the head … Read more
The site of a Nazi mass execution known as death valley is to be excavated after researchers discovered bullet shells, clothing buttons and medal fragments. The find was made on the outskirts of Chojnice, a town in northern Poland, after researchers from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences carried … Read more
Irish gangland murder suspect in horrific execution and dismemberment of 17-year-old boy is shot dead in broad daylight hit Victim named locally as Robbie Lawlor, 35, a senior figure in a criminal gang Lawlor said to be in hiding since murder of teenager Keane Mulready-Woods The 17-year-old Drogheda boy was found killed and dismembered in … Read more