Justin Ross Harris, the Georgia dad whose 22-month-old son, Cooper, died after being left in a hot car for seven hours, was convicted by a grand jury Thursday, with multiple murder charges. Apart from malice murder, Justin Harris also faces two counts of felony murder as well as first-degree cruelty to children, second-degree cruelty to children, criminal attempt to commit a felony (sexual … [Read more...]
Missouri Carries Out the Death Penalty for this Seventh Time This Year
Missouri has just carried out the death penalty by lethal injection for the seventh time this year, almost two weeks after the botched execution in Arizona raised some serious concern about the lethal injection, its efficiency and capital punishment in the United States. It was declared by the Missouri Department of Corrections that Michael Worthington, age 43, was pronounced dead on Wednesday at … [Read more...]