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UPDATE: Federal Prosecutors Seek Blagojevich Sentence Of 15 To 20 Years In Prison – Judge Gives Him 14
Rod Blagojevich told a Federal Court that he made "Terrible Mistakes" and that he is "Unbelievably Sorry" for his crimes of trying to sell the vacated seat of Barack Obama. Federal Prosecutors are not buying it. The judges verdict came down and looks like Blago will be sitting out 14 years in a Federal Prison, although the actual amount of time incarcerated will likely be much less.
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Polygamist Leader Warren Jeffs Hospitalized After Fasting in Prison
Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs is in critical condition after being rushed to a Texas hospital on Tuesday, a prison official said. The 55-year-old convicted child rapist grew so weakened by fasting that he had to be removed from his solitary prison cell for medical treatment.
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‘West Memphis Three’ Released from Prison
Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin — better known as the “West Memphis Three” — were released from prison Friday after entering first-degree murder pleas for the 1993 deaths of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, a small community just outside Memphis, Tennessee.
In a somewhat confusing arrangement with prosecutors, the men entered the guilty pleas while maintaining their innocence and were sentenced to time served and a 10-year suspended sentence.
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Video Catches Teens Killing Man in Alleged Hate Crime
WARNING: This story contains disturbing details and graphic language.
Video captured by a Mississippi surveillance camera shows a group of teens killing a man in an alleged hate crime, the district attorney says. Video shows 49-year-old auto plant worker James C. Anderson being beaten before being run over with a pickup truck, CNN reported.
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Warren Jeffs Sentenced to Life in Prison
Warren Jeffs, head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), was sentenced to life in prison by a Texas jury Tuesday.
Jeffs, who teaches his followers that polygamy brings exhalation in heaven, had been found guilty of sexually assaulting two of his underage “brides.”
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Charles Graner Jr., Key Figure in Abu Ghraib Abuse Case, Freed from Leavenworth
When photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing suspected Iraqi insurgents were released to the public in 2004, they caused an international outcry.
Over the weekend, the man who orchestrated the abuses at Abu Ghraib was released from prison.
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