ALABAMA (WHNT) — A new filing in Federal District Court is asking the court to stop another Alabama inmate from execution by nitrogen gas, saying that the execution of Kevin Eugene Smith using the method was ‘botched.’ The new filing, made on behalf of death row inmate David Wilson, argues executing Wilson using the current […]
Irish mortgage rates fell again in December, according to the Central Bank. The average interest rate on a new mortgage in the Republic is now at 4.19 per cent, down for the third month in a row and 0.06 percentage points lower compared to November. This meant Ireland had the 10th lowest rates in the […]
John Cleese has hit back at his former Monty Python co-star Eric Idle after he criticised the group’s management over its financial difficulties, saying: “We always loathed and despised each other.” Over the weekend, Idle blamed manager Holly Gilliam, daughter of Python co-founder Terry Gilliam, for the dwindling finances of the comedy troupe, which was […]
A senior executive who works from home in Co Clare has gone to the High Court in a row over attempts to make him work from the Dublin office. Brian Fitzpatrick, who works as a senior executive at an aircraft leasing firm, has launched proceedings aimed at preventing his employer from sanctioning him. Mr Fitzpatrick […]
A Qatari court has released eight former Indian naval officers previously on death row for unspecified charges. Seven of the men have already returned to India, Delhi’s foreign ministry said on Monday. In January, authorities said their death sentences had been converted into prison sentences of “varying” lengths. Neither Qatar nor India revealed the charges […]
Three weeks before Idaho death row prisoner Thomas Creech is set to be executed, his attorneys are seeking a new clemency review after alleging in a federal lawsuit that prosecutors and the state parole board violated their client’s constitutional rights. Creech, 73, has been incarcerated in Idaho for nearly 50 years following murder convictions for […]
State gas prices fell for the second consecutive week at an average of $3.07 per gallon of regular fuel on Monday, down from last week’s price of $3.07 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The average fuel price in state has fallen about 9 cents since last month. According to the EIA, […]
Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, whose stay of execution was lifted last summer, will have his case heard after prosecutors announced they will use a Missouri law allowing them to intervene in wrongful convictions. The 55 year old has been on Missouri’s death row for 24 years. DNA testing concluded he was not a match to evidence […]
Laurence Fox has lost a High Court libel battle with two people he referred to as paedophiles on social media. The actor-turned-politician was sued by former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal over a row on Twitter, now known as X, in October 2020. Mr Fox called Mr Blake and the former RuPaul’s […]
Laurence Fox is set to discover the outcome of his UK High Court libel battle with two people he referred to as paedophiles on social media in a ruling on Monday. The actor-turned-politician was sued by former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal over a row on Twitter, now known as X, in […]
A man who shot former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith following a traffic crash nearly eight years ago has been convicted of manslaughter. The jury deliberated for more than four hours and reached its verdict in the retrial of Cardell Hayes just after midnight Saturday, news outlets reported. Hayes faces up to 40 years […]
Idaho’s longest-serving death row inmate, Thomas Eugene Creech, who has admitted to killing dozens of people and been convicted of five murders, was named a suspect in the fatal shooting of a man nearly 50 years ago in California. The victim, Daniel Walker, was killed near Needles, in eastern Bernardino County, on Oct. 1, 1974. […]