The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of a Texas death row inmate one hour before he was scheduled to die Tuesday. Ruben Gutierrez, 43, had been set to die at 6 p.m. CDT at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville for the 1998 murder of an elderly mobile-home park owner during a robbery. But he … Read more
Kim Kardashian on Tuesday thanked the Supreme Court for granting convicted murderer Ruben Gutierrez a stay of execution just one hour before he was scheduled to die. The reality star-turned-criminal justice reform advocate celebrated the news on social media, writing: ‘Thank you Supreme Court of the United States for granting a Stay of Execution for Ruben … 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