Michael Brown’s Family Releases Anti-Violence Statement After 2 Officers Shot At Protest

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Mike Brown protest, Ferguson, Mo

The family of Mike Brown is distancing themselves from what they call a “senseless” shooting of two police officers during a Ferguson protest on the night of March 11, 2015. Continue reading “Michael Brown’s Family Releases Anti-Violence Statement After 2 Officers Shot At Protest”

Cartel Hitmen Kidnap and Behead Woman Running For Mayor

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Aide Nava

The 42-year-old woman running for mayor in a violent southwestern Mexican state that sparked the biggest crisis of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s administration has been kidnapped and decapitated.

State prosecutors said the body of Aide Nava was found in northern Guerrero, where 43 trainee teachers were abducted and almost certainly massacred last year, sparking an international outcry over criminal violence in Mexico.

A spokesman for the prosecutors said Nava, a candidate from the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), was kidnapped on Tuesday in the town of Ahuacuotzingo, the municipality she hoped to become mayor of in June elections. Continue reading “Cartel Hitmen Kidnap and Behead Woman Running For Mayor”

Georgia’s Only Woman On Death Row Sues Over ‘Mortal Fear’ During Delayed Execution

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Kelly Gissendaner, Georgia’s only woman on death row

The case of Kelly Gissendaner, Georgia’s only woman on death row, has more twists and turns than a rural Georgia back road.

Gissendaner was initially set to be executed in late February but her execution was delayed “due to inclement weather”.

Kelly’s execution was rescheduled until March 2, 2015 and was yet again DELAYED due to the injection drug’s cloudy appearance.

This time Kelly Gissendaner’s camp is crying foul on the DOC (Department of Corrections) and has filed a lawsuit on Gissendaner’s behalf stating that she endured 13 hours of “immense mental anxiety” and “mortal fear” — and that the delay was heinous enough to make a future execution unnecessarily cruel and therefore unconstitutional. Continue reading “Georgia’s Only Woman On Death Row Sues Over ‘Mortal Fear’ During Delayed Execution”