A death row inmate in Oklahoma was preparing for his scheduled execution Thursday when Gov. Kevin Sitt spared his life and announced his decision to commute Wood’s sentence from death to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Tremane Wood, 46, is the sixth condemned person to receive clemency in the state in the…
US President Donald Trump’s relationship with the late, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has once again come under scrutiny, after US lawmakers released more than 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate on Wednesday, including some that mention Trump’s name. US Democrats in the House Oversight Committee – a federal body that oversees government functions…
A jury has found a man with links to white supremacists guilty of murder in a brutal killing at a southwestern Montana campsite last year that was initially reported as a possible bear attack. Daren Christopher Abbey attacked Dustin Kjersem with a block of wood, an axe and a screwdriver after they met at Kjersem’s…
Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country’s use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed this year. Forty-one executions have been carried out so far in 2025, and, without intervention from government officials or the courts, another six…
Police seized 61,000 Bitcoin from Zhimin Qian, 47, as part of a years-long money laundering investigation. The United Kingdom has sentenced a Chinese woman to 11 years and eight months in prison for a years-long scheme to launder investment scam proceeds into Bitcoin, luxury property, and other assets now worth about 4.8 billion British pounds…
Nearly three decades after a woman was murdered in the suburban Washington, D.C., hospital where she worked, police believe they may have finally identified her killer. Sheryl Crandell was discovered unresponsive inside of her office at Prince George’s Hospital Center in Cheverly, Maryland, on Jan. 13, 1998, according to Othram, Inc., the forensic laboratory that…
LONDON — A Chinese woman who was found with 5 billion pounds ($6.6 billion) in Bitcoin after defrauding more than 128,000 people in China in a Ponzi scheme was sentenced by a U.K. court on Tuesday to over 11 years in prison. Police said the investigation into Zhimin Qian, 47, led to officers recovering devices…
Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal injection. Nichols was sentenced to death in 1990 after he was convicted of raping and murdering Karen Pulley, a 21-year-old student at Chattanooga State…
Emergency services are at the scene of a cordoned-off road in the St Ann’s area of Nottingham after a man was stabbed at around 12.50pm today and police have launched a murder enquiry 16:59, 10 Nov 2025Updated 17:09, 10 Nov 2025 Emergency services at the scene (Image: Supplied) A man has died after being stabbed…
A voting board in Oklahoma decided Wednesday to recommend clemency for Tremane Wood, a death row inmate who is scheduled to receive a lethal injection next week at the state penitentiary in McAlester. Wood, 46, faces execution for his conviction in the 2001 murder of Ronnie Wipf, a migrant farmworker, at an Oklahoma City hotel…