Category: Crime News

Man Awarded 9.1 Million for Wrongful Conviction

Here’s a gut wrenching story.

This man was wrongfully convicted of a terrible heinous crime and made to stay in prison for 22 years where he suffered mental, physical and sexual abuse.

The judgment of $9.1 million seems like a good attempt by the courts to right their wrong, but how can this man be re-paid for years and years of being confined and ultimately violated for a crime he didn’t even commit?

Hopefully he can still salvage what’s left of his life and find healing in all of this.

What a sad miscarriage of justice!

It’s “Life Row” For Two of the Youngest Women on Death Row

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Tiffany Cole (L) Emilia Carr (R)

When Tiffany Cole and Emilia Carr walk down the hall in Florida’s Lowell Correctional Institution for Women together, they seem more like smiling girlfriends than convicted felons sitting on death row.

Cole is now 33, and Carr is now 30. Carr is the youngest woman in the United States sitting on death row, and Cole is the third youngest. The two women are behind bars for committing two separate crimes, and they had separate lives until they arrived as neighbors on the famous death row corridor at the women’s correctional facility in Ocala, Florida.

Carr, who is from Ocala, and Cole, from Jacksonville, Florida, share a similar path. Continue reading “It’s “Life Row” For Two of the Youngest Women on Death Row”

Atlanta Woman Beaten By Friends Over a Whopper Junior Hamburger

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Myriah Pointer was beaten over a hamburger

Myriah Pointer, 23, of Atlanta, GA was attacked and severely beaten by three females that she thought was her friends, in an Atlanta area apartment.

The vicious attack —over a HAMBURGER has since gone viral causing an uproar on the internet as well as in the media.

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Myriah Pointer hopes news attention will lead to the arrest of her attackers

Pointer suffered two black eyes, a chipped tooth and a concussion after the women, who she thought were her friends, beat her and recorded it. Continue reading “Atlanta Woman Beaten By Friends Over a Whopper Junior Hamburger”