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The Pentagon announced Monday night that President Trump approved Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's recommendation to execute former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, 56, by Army firing squad for the 2009 Fort Hood shooting that killed 13 people and wounded 32. The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place; it would be the first U.S. military execution since 1961 and the Army's first firing squad sinc...

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles granted parole Thursday to Amber Guyger, 38, the former Dallas officer convicted of murdering Botham Jean, 26, in his own apartment in September 2018 — seven years to the day after her conviction, and seven years into a ten-year sentence. The board cited the absence of a documented pattern of violent arrests or convictions, a satisfactory institutional adjust...

Christa Gail Pike is unconscious, intubated and breathing through a ventilator at a Nashville-area hospital five days after Tennessee failed to execute her, her attorneys said in a Friday emergency motion. Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen of Federal Defender Services of East Tennessee wrote that the execution team used at least seven needles, that one bent, that Pike herself suggested an access site...

Christa Gail Pike remains hospitalized two days after Tennessee failed to execute her, and her attorneys say they still have not been told her condition. Dr. Mark Walton Fowler, the contract physician who publicly confirmed he would oversee her execution, was also the physician involved in Tennessee's halted execution of Tony Carruthers in May; Carruthers's sister has filed a Department of Health...

Tennessee failed to execute Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday night. After the Sixth Circuit stayed her execution an hour before its scheduled 10 a.m. start and the U.S. Supreme Court vacated that stay hours later, the state administered two doses of pentobarbital — the maximum its protocol allows — and Pike, 50, remained alive. Media witnesses reported she was still breathing more than 40 minutes la...

A Miami County, Ohio, jury convicted Caleb Flynn, 40, on Tuesday of aggravated murder and every other count in the February shooting death of his wife, Ashley Flynn, 37, a middle school volleyball coach and mother of two. Jurors deliberated under three hours after a trial that began Sept. 18 and heard from more than 40 witnesses. Prosecutors argued Flynn shot his wife as she slept and staged the s...

Plastic surgeon Tomasz Kosowski, 47, was convicted of first-degree murder last Wednesday in the 2023 killing of Largo attorney Steven Cozzi, 41, after representing himself, waiving his right to a jury, and putting on no defense. Judge Joseph Bulone deliberated about 15 minutes. Kosowski then declined counsel for the penalty phase and said he will present no mitigating evidence; a Spencer hearing i...

Mary Kellerman was twelve years old when her parents gave her an Extra-Strength Tylenol capsule on the morning of September 29, 1982. She died that morning. Within three days, six more people in the Chicago area were dead: Adam, Stanley and Theresa Janus, Mary McFarland, Paula Prince and Mary Reiner. Seven people, poisoned by potassium cyanide packed into capsules on a drugstore shelf, and no one...

Harvey Weinstein, 74, was sentenced Wednesday in Manhattan to 15 years in prison for the 2006 sexual assault of production assistant Miriam Haley, followed by five years of supervised release and sex-offender registration. Judge Curtis Farber told him he took what he wanted by force and had never accepted responsibility; Haley, in her victim impact statement, said it is a life sentence for her. We...

Caleb Flynn, 40, the former music pastor and American Idol contestant on trial in Miami County, Ohio, for the February shooting death of his wife, Ashley Flynn, 37, heard her family testify against him this week. Ashley's sister, Kayla Keyt, and her father, Todd Smith, described the family business Ashley was set to inherit and the break-in story they never believed — Smith told jurors the family'...

Richard Allen, convicted in 2024 of murdering Abigail "Abby" Williams, 13, and Liberty "Libby" German, 14, near the Monon High Bridge in Delphi, Indiana, asked the Indiana Court of Appeals for a new trial on Monday. His lawyers argue that the more than 60 incriminating statements prosecutors say he made were produced by psychosis during months of pretrial solitary confinement at Westville Correcti...

Matthew Exton, 43, a former attorney convicted of attempting to shoot his ex-wife at the opening night of Sabira restaurant in Toledo, was sentenced Monday by Lucas County Judge Gary Cook. Exton tried to fire his attorney the morning of the hearing, then told the court that pointing a loaded gun at his ex-wife was not harm because it did not fire. Cook played the surveillance video, saying it show...

The holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial has been publicly identified, had his address and phone number posted online, received death threats, and is now in an undisclosed location in rural northern New England with counsel. In a statement to NewsNation, Michael P. Desronvil disputed his fellow jurors' accounts: "I didn't have any doubts," and said he believed from the evidence that Clan...

A secret documentary about Elizabeth Holmes premiered at Telluride on September 6. "You Can See Everything", directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, distributed by A24, filmed over three years beginning 34 days before she reported to federal prison. It screens at the New York Film Festival on September 30 and opens theatrically in October. Meanwhile, Holmes's X account, revived in August 2...

Former Massachusetts State Police trooper Michael Proctor invoked his Fifth Amendment right rather than answer questions at a hearing in a Milton murder case he led — the 2021 killing of 25-year-old Marquis Simmons. Judge Peter Krupp allowed it after a sidebar his defense counsel was barred from joining. Defense attorney Rosemary Scapicchio, who is seeking dismissal of charges against Myles Omari...

Tomasz Kosowski, representing himself in a capital murder trial in Pinellas County, Florida, gave no opening statement and cross-examined none of the state's witnesses on the first day. Assistant State Attorney Alexandra Spadaro told Judge Joseph Bulone that attorney Steven Cozzi, 41, was killed in his firm's bathroom and moved out by wagon — that "his coffin was a dumpster" and his remains lie in...

Judge London Kite has refused to step aside from Shanna Gardner's murder case after both prosecutors and Kirsten Bridegan — the widow of victim Jared Bridegan — filed motions asking her to disqualify herself. Kite ruled both legally insufficient without addressing the factual allegations. The dispute began when Gardner's defense sought Kirsten Bridegan's cellphone; Kite initially denied the reques...

Tomasz Kosowski, 47, goes on trial Monday in Pinellas County, Florida, for the first-degree murder of attorney Steven Cozzi, 41, who vanished from his Largo office bathroom in March 2023 and has never been found. Kosowski has dismissed multiple defense teams, is representing himself, withdrew his prior counsel's motions to suppress evidence and their challenges to the death penalty, and waived a j...

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, no one has been tried for them. A military judge set a June 2028 trial date last month for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants at Guantanamo Bay — twenty years after they were first charged — following two decades of litigation driven largely by the CIA's treatment of the defendants in secret custody, which the government has acknowledged...

Four jurors from Lindsay Clancy's murder trial have now spoken publicly, and their accounts conflict. Foreperson Roni Carlson, a retired fifth-grade special needs teacher, told NBC10 Boston the holdout juror "admitted he had reasonable doubt" — that she began signing the verdict forms before he said, "But I'm still not going to say that she's not guilty by reason of insanity." Jurors Kellie Farina...

Four jurors from Lindsay Clancy's murder trial have now spoken publicly, and their accounts conflict. Foreperson Roni Carlson, a retired fifth-grade special needs teacher, told NBC10 Boston the holdout juror "admitted he had reasonable doubt" — that she began signing the verdict forms before he said, "But I'm still not going to say that she's not guilty by reason of insanity." Jurors Kellie Farina...

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked President Trump to pardon Lindsay Clancy during a Good Morning America interview Tuesday, days after her murder trial ended in a mistrial — a request the president has no authority to grant, since the pardon power under Article II reaches only federal offenses and Clancy is charged under Massachusetts law. Reddington also said he hopes to reach an agreement...

A Lucas County jury convicted attorney Matthew Exton, 43, of attempted murder, two counts of felonious assault and multiple firearm specifications Friday, in the April 2025 armed confrontation at the opening night of Sabira restaurant in Toledo. He was acquitted on a third assault count. Prosecutor Julia Bates said Exton "came with anger in him and with the intention to commit a public execution o...

A mistrial was declared Friday in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial after the jury deadlocked over seven days and roughly 38 hours. With courts closed for the holiday, a full retrospective: the night of January 24, 2023; the four months of psychiatric treatment that preceded it, including a five-day voluntary hospital admission three weeks before her children died; the 21 days of testimony and 84 witn...

Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Friday in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial after jurors deadlocked. Their final note: "It is with a heavy heart that we report we are unable to come to a unanimous decision and will not be able to." The panel of nine women and three men deliberated about 38 hours over seven days; jury notes indicated an 11-1 split, with defense attorney Kevin Reddington tell...