Month: January 2020

A death row inmate in Texas has issued a plea for forgiveness to his victim’s family moments before he was executed by lethal injection. John Gardner, 64, was sentenced to death in 2006 for fatally shooting his estranged wife a year earlier, who allegedly often told friends she did not expect to get out of…

By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – A man was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday, 15 years after authorities say he fatally shot his estranged wife who had told friends she did not expect to get out of the abusive marriage alive. John Gardner, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. at the state’s…

Houston (AFP) – Texas on Wednesday carried out the first execution of the year in the United States, putting to death by lethal injection a man convicted of killing his wife 15 years ago because she wanted a divorce. John Gardner, 64, was sentenced to death in 2006 for killing his fifth wife, who had…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday announced seven impeachment managers who will represent the House of Representatives in the upcoming impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the Senate. Representatives Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Zoe Lofgren, Hakeem Jeffries, Val Demings, Jason Crow and Sylvia Garcia were named as impeachment managers. They will serve as the…

Two things happened simultaneously on Wednesday: (a) The House of Representatives transmitted to the Senate two articles of impeachment approved on straight partisan lines a month ago, and (b) the House’s impeachment inquiry — yes, it’s still very much alive — highlighted new, relevant evidence it has turned up about the activities in Ukraine of…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States began sending Honduran and Salvadoran asylum seekers to Guatemala in November and last week said it would expand the practice to Mexicans. The U.S. could also start sending asylum seekers from Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Brazil to Honduras starting as early as the end of the…

The U.S. allegedly isn’t protecting people who come to the southern border seeking asylum, and the ACLU wants that to change. On Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union launched the first nationwide legal challenge against the Trump administration’s “safe third country” agreement with Guatemala. The agreement lets the U.S. send asylum seekers back to the…

Washington — The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday mounted the first legal challenge against the Trump administration’s policy of sending migrants who seek protection at the U.S.-Mexico border to Guatemala, a country with a skeletal asylum regime that has seen an exodus of hundreds of thousands of its own citizens in the past two…

The threat of the Philippines’ Taal volcano unleashing a potentially catastrophic eruption remains high, authorities warned Thursday, saying it was showing dangerous signs despite a “lull” in spewing ash. Scores of earthquakes rattle the region daily and large fissures are opening up in the ground, which means the magma that would fuel a major eruption…

The farewell to her elderly uncle in the shadow of one of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes was the most “heartbreaking” moment of Juliet Cuento’s life. The single mother of three, 52, who had to escort her 83-year-old mother out of the 8.6-mile evacuation zone around the erupting Taal volcano in the Philippines, pleaded with…