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Ohio to Execute Man for Killing Fellow Jail Inmate
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio plans to put a man to death Tuesday who killed a fellow Cincinnati jail inmate over the changing of a TV channel as he awaited sentencing for the aggravated murder of a fellow drug trafficker over stolen money, drugs and incriminating documents. Clarence Carter, 49, is to be executed by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. He is to be the second inmate killed using the surgical sedative pentobarbital as a stand-alone execution drug. AP Clarence Carter, who beat to death a fellow Cincinnati jail inmate, is scheduled to be ...
Sailor Charged With Murdering Officer on British Nuke Sub
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- A Royal Navy sailor appeared in court Monday, charged with murdering an officer and shooting at three other crewmen in a gun spree aboard a British nuclear-powered submarine. Able Seaman Ryan Donovan, 22, spoke only to confirm his name, age and address during the brief hearing at Southampton Magistrates' Court in southern England. Prosecutor Nick Hawkins said Donovan was accused of "the deliberate discharge of a SA80 rifle six times, aimed at four people," one of whom died. He said the military had agreed the case should be handled in the civilian courts. Donovan was ordered ...
Man Gets 20 Years to Life in Death Wish Murder of Motivational Speaker
By David Lohr - AOL NewsThe man convicted of murdering a debt-ridden motivational speaker who prosecutors say wanted to arrange his own death was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison today in New York. Kenneth Minor, 36, had been found guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 52-year-old Jeffrey Locker. Minor argued that Locker asked to be killed in exchange for an ATM card. A tearful Minor blurted out "S---!" when Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Carol Berkman announced the sentencing, the New York Daily News reported. Moments beforehand, Minor briefly addressed the courtroom. "In the end, Mr. ...
Ex-Cops Sentenced for Killing Man After Katrina
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW ORLEANS -- Calling the crimes inexcusable and barbaric, a judge sentenced two former New Orleans police officers to prison Thursday for their roles in the shooting death of an unarmed man whose body was later set on fire in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The 25-plus years David Warren received for shooting 31-year-old Henry Glover to death was the stiffest punishment so far in the Justice Department's investigations of post-Katrina police misconduct. Ex-officer Gregory McRae was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for burning Glover's body after he was gunned ...
A Severed Pig's Head, a Friend's Dead Body and Other Things Not to Bring to a Soccer Game
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsYou can add the dead guy at a pro game in Colombia last weekend to a list of crazy behavior by soccer fans at games. In the now infamous story, fans in Colombia stole the body of a murdered friend from a funeral home and took his corpse to the stadium to cheer on their favorite team -- a whole new twist on Pro Zombie Soccer. Christopher Jacome, 17, was shot and killed on Saturday while playing soccer in his local park. The following day, friends took his coffin and carried it into the 42,000-capacity General Santander Stadium in Cucuta for a match between Cucuta Deportivo and Envigado. It ...
Murder Victim's Parents Sue Facebook Over Crime Scene Photo
By David Lohr - AOL NewsThe family of a New York murder victim has filed a civil suit against Facebook and others, including an ex-EMT who posted a graphic picture of their daughter's body to the social networking website. "This is on the second anniversary of our daughter's death. I just want to get by, day by day," the victim's mother, Martha Wimmer, told reporters Monday from the steps of the Supreme Court in St. George. Wimmer's daughter, Caroline Wimmer, 26, was found strangled to death with a hair dryer cord in her Staten Island apartment on March 30, 2009. Investigators estimated she had been dead for two ...
Police: Man Kills Wife of 66 Years, Claims She No Longer Loved Him
By David Lohr - AOL NewsAuthorities in Ohio have jailed an elderly man accused of killing his wife of 66 years, allegedly because she said she no longer loved him. "They had been arguing off and on, and at some point in time she told him that she didn't love him anymore," Copley Township Police Chief Michael Mier told AOL News. "They continued to argue, and he reached for a gun he had close at hand in the bedroom and shot her one time in the face." According to Mier, Glenn Leo Burbridge, 86, is being held at the Summit County Jail on a $100,000 bond and is charged with murdering his 83-year-old wife, Alice. He is ...
Peru Police: Van der Sloot Lying About Laptop
By not in system - AOL NewsLIMA, Peru - A study of Joran van der Sloot's laptop shows he is lying when he says he killed a young Peruvian woman in a fit of rage because she discovered his connection to Natalee Holloway's disappearance while using it, a senior Peruvian police official said Friday. Stephany Flores did not view any such information on the laptop after accompanying Van der Sloot to the Lima hotel room where she was killed on May 30, the technology chief of Peru's police, Col. Oscar Gonzales, told The Associated Press. Karel Navarro, AP Lawyers for Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot, shown here ...
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