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One Teen's Fate: The Math of a 100-Year Sentence

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Parole, Murder, Pellicano Trial, Gang, Prison, Juvenile Justice, Crime, Jail, Court Case, Rodrigo Cahallero, Crime News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

While the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that it is unconstitutional to sentence a minor to life without parole -- except for homicide -- cases like Rodrigo Caballero's fall under a gray area based on the wording of the law.

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Prosthetic Arm Used To Beat Man To Death

AP | Posted 06.01.2012

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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. -- An Arkansas man is accused of using his prosthetic arm and a rock to beat another man to death. Hot Springs police say 52-year-o...

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David Lohr

Virginia Police Officer Indicted For Murder

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Murder, Virginia Crime, Video, Daniel Harmon-Wright, Jim Fisher, Crime, Crime News, Patricia Ann Cook, Chip Coleman, Bethany Sullivan, Crime News

A Virginia police officer has been indicted by a grand jury on one count of murder, in connection with the shooting and death of an unarmed woman near...

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The Religious Right's Assault on Palliative Care

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Murder, Right-to-Life, Religious Right, Palliative Care, Euthanasia, Georgia, Do Not Resuscitate, End of Life Care, Anti-Choice, Politics News
Barbara Coombs Lee

The medical establishment's support for patient choice exists within a particular, and peculiar, bioethical framework.A problem arises for palliative care physicians when people question their intention.

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Accessorizing Hate

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Bias, Jesus, Non-Profits, Gays and Lesbians, United States, Love, Bigotry, Minorities, Civil Rights Movement, Hate Crimes, Intolerance, Southern Baptists, Kindness, Non-Profit-Tax-Status, Religious Tolerance, Civil Rights, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Christianity and Homosexuality, Murder, Politics, God, Hate Speech, Politics News
Sarah O'Leary

When we choose silence in the face of bigotry, we threaten the lifeblood of our Union. We've all experienced more than a few bigots in our lives. Th...

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Teen Split Up Family Killing Assignments With Friend: Testimony

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Murder, Ian Zinderman, Detroit Crime, Cipriano Murder, Video, Mitchell Young, Cipriano Family Murder, Tucker Cipriano, Cipriano Murder Plot, Mug Shots, Cipriano Testimony, Michigan Crime, Crime News

Tucker Cipriano was tasked with killing his two brothers. His friend, Mitchell Young, agreed to end the lives of Cipriano's mom, dad and sister. Ia...

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'If I Can't Have Her, No One Can'

Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Davie Fl, Man Stabs Man With Polio, John Nicholson, Video, Felix Pena, Florida Crime, Broward Sheriff's Office, Miami Crime, Domestic Violence, Man Tries to Kill Ex-Girlfriend and Father, Felix Pena Jail, Felix Matthew Pena Is in Custody, Felix PeñA, Girlfriend Davie, Murder, Miami News

A Davie man was arrested Sunday for attempting to murder his teenaged ex-girlfriend and her polio-stricken father. 20-year-old Felix Pena and his 1...

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Porn Star Slapped With 40 Years For Sex Party Slaying

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Pornography, Murder, Sex Party, Amanda Logue Sentence, Video, Amanda Logue Guilty, Sunny Dae, Amanda Logue, Scooter, Jason Andrews, Porn, Dennis Abrahamsen, Crime News

Sunny Dae is known for her bondage -- and now she'll be restrained for a long, long time. Amanda Logue -- a Florida porn star actor known as "Sunny...

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Suspect Arrested In Deadly Mississippi Highway Shootings

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Murder, Mississippi Highway Shootings, James D. Willie, Video, Crime, Warren Strain, James D. Willie Charged, Mississippi Department of Public Safety, Ap, Crime News

TUNICA, Miss. (AP) — To hear his neighbors tell it, James Willie was just a regular guy who sometimes played with the neighborhood kids. Police desc...

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David Lohr

Mississippi Highway Killer May Be Dressed As Cop, Ready To Strike Again

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Murder, Video, Mississippi, Homicide, Mississippi Highway Killer, Scott A. Bonn, Scott Bonn, Crime, Crime News, Highway Killer, Mississippi Crime, Fbi, Dennis Rader, Slideexpand, Serial Killers, BTK Killer, Crime News

The person who shot two people to death along Mississippi highways possibly while dressed as a police officer is likely a meticulous and organized kil...

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Couple Murdered Over Winning Lotto Ticket, Daughter Says

Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Detroit Crime, Lottery, Lottery Winner, Detroit Murder, Lottery Winner Murdered, Couple Killed Over Lotto Ticket, Murder, Video, William Dollar Bill Evans, William and Brenda Evans, Lotto Murder, Brenda Evans, William Evans, Tierra Evans, Lottery Murder, William and Brenda Evans Murdered, Detroit News

A Detroit couple allegedly killed in their home Sunday morning may have been murdered over a winning lottery ticket, according to Click On Detroit. ...

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Mentally Ill Inmates Sue To Get Out Of Solitary

AP | REMA RAHMAN | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Murder, Video, National Prison Project, Prisoners in Solitary Confinement, Mentally Ill Inmates, Mentally Ill Prisoners, Troy Anderson, Denver Colorado, Denver News, Colorado Correctional Facilities, Colorado State Penitentiary, Solitary Confinement, Colorado, Denver News

DENVER -- Troy Anderson is a mentally ill inmate in isolation at the Colorado State Penitentiary, deemed for more than a decade too dangerous to be am...

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David Lohr

Baby Found In Road Leads Massachusetts Police To Gruesome Crime Scene

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Crime News, Crime, Massachusetts Crime, Yannetee Rivera, Worcester, Drugs, Murder, Video, Homicide, Javier Maldonado Murder, Javier Maldonado, Nestor Ramirez Murder, Nestor Ramirez, Crime News

A baby found in a car seat in the middle of a Massachusetts street recently led police to a grisly crime scene. The events leading up to the shocki...

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'Pocahontas' The Stripper Allegedly Lured Man To His Death

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Murder, Houston Crime, Luerissie Ashley Ross, Pocahontas, Budrohoe Briscoe, Stripper Wanted for Murder, Luerissie Ross, Ice Cream Castle, Stripper, Crime News

This Pocahontas is no princess. Cops are searching for Luerissie Ashley Ross, a 20-year-old stripper known as "Pocahontas," after she allegedly lur...

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NY Seeks To Deny Murderers Spousal Burial Rights

AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Murder, Ny News, Muzzammil-Hassan-Beheading, Murderer, New York News, Republican Sen. Michael Ranzenhofer, Spousal Burial Rights, Stephen Shepherd, New York News

ALBANY, N.Y. -- As Constance Shepherd's family grieved over her death at the hands of her husband, they had hoped to find some comfort by giving her a...

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Woman Allegedly Kills Fiance Over A Cigarette

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Murder, Stabbed Over Cigarette, Stabbing, Ricardo McMillian, Killed Over a Cigarette, Cigarette, Yolanda Stills, Domestic Violence, Crime News

A Florida woman is under fire this week after she allegedly stabbed her fiance dead because he wouldn't give her a cigarette. Yolanda Stills, 43, w...

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Two Charged In Death Of Teens Found Engulfed In Flames

AP | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Murder, Orange County Sheriff, Video, Jeremy Stewart, Nicholas Presha, Jesse Brandon Davis, Florida Crime, Florida, Hector Manuel Rodriguez, Crime News

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say two men have been charged with first-degree murder in the killings of two teenagers whose bodies were found eng...

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New Dad Allegedly Beat Crying Infant To Death

Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: New Orleans, Murder, First-Degree Murder, Video, Infant Beaten to Death, Macayla Short, New Orleans Crime, Micah Short Charged, Crying Baby Killed, Infant Killed for Crying, Crime News

New Orleans Police say that a man fatally beat his 2-month-old daughter last week because she would not stop crying. Micah Short, 21, initially tol...

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A Deafening Silence

John Merrow | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: New Orleans, Leadership, Christine Marcelin, Murder, Brandon Adams, Gun Control, KIPP Believe, Kipp, Guns, Higher Education, Nra, New Orleans Schools, Video, Education News
John Merrow

Gun violence is tearing our urban centers apart, and the blood that's most often shed seems to be that of promising young children. Why the deafening silence from our leading campuses?

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David Lohr

Police Arrest Man Suspected Of Killing Mother, Grandmother

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Murder, Joseph Wright Murder, Video, Melba Trahant, Crime, Crime News, Mug Shots, Joseph Wright, Massachusetts Crime, Donna Breau, Joseph E. Wright, Crime News

A Massachusetts man suspected of killing his mother and grandmother was taken into custody as he attempted to cross the border from the United States ...

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Alleged Violent Rampage Leaves Mother And Daughter Dead

The Huffington Post | Steven Hoffer | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Murder, Igancia Martinez, Video, Boy Told School Officials Family Dead, Arturo Martinez, Las Vegas Murder, Las Vegas Crime, Bryan Clay, Bryan Clay Arrested, Karla Martinez, Murder Spree, Christopher Martinez, Las Vegas-Nevada, Sexual Assault, Crime News

A man with uncertain motives is accused of a "savage" murder spree that left two women and a 10-year-old girl the alleged victims of sexual assault. ...

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73-Year-Old Man Killed Over High School Grudge, Police Claim

AP | DIRK LAMMERS | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Murder, Video, Carl Ericsson, Shooting, Norman Johnson, Grudge Killing, South Dakota, High School Grudge Killing, High School Grudge, Crime News

MADISON, S.D. -- A 73-year-old South Dakota man accused of fatally shooting his long-ago classmate will plead guilty but mentally ill to a second-degr...

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Police: Murder Victim's Last Words May Have Saved Lives

The Huffington Post | Steven Hoffer | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Murder, Christopher Chase Whaley, Barbara Denmark, Crime, Christopher Chase Whaley Arrested, Mug Shots, Florida Crime, Florida, Grandmother Stabbed in Bathtub, Crime News

A grandmother's last words to a grandson accused of stabbing her to death may have spared the rest of her family's lives, police in Florida say. "I...

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Cops Reportedly Find Body Of Man Wanted For Killing Wife, Daughter

AP | GENE JOHNSON and TED WARREN | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Murder, Video, Pete Keller, Police Surround Bunker, Booby Trap, Bunker, Washington Crime, Crime News

NORTH BEND, Wash. -- Peter Keller spent eight years carving his hole in the side of the mountain, camouflaging the rugged underground bunker with fern...

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The Prize of Peace

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Invasions, Lies, Emotional Abuse, Peace Process, Hate, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, War, Violence, Character Assisnation, Kindness, Nobel Peace Prize, Homocide, Evil, Peace, Middle East Peace, Murder, Religion, Military, Peace Talks, Jesus, Middle East Peace Process, Christianity, Love, Inner Peace, Impact News
Sarah O'Leary

The greatest threat to evil is peace.

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