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In surprise interview Bill Cosby announces plans to tour in 2023

Bill Cosby, having been released from prison after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed his conviction, is planning a comeback tour.

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Eleven sentenced to life in prison for 2016 Ivory Coast beach attack

Eleven people have been sentenced to life in prison in Ivory Coast on Wednesday after being convicted of carrying out an Islamic extremist attack that killed 19 people and injured dozens more on a tourist beach nearly seven years ago.

France 24

Another long prison term handed down in plot to kidnap Michigan governor

Prosecutors had sought a life sentence for Barry Croft Jr., 47, the fourth and final federal defendant to learn his fate. Judge Robert J. Jonker called Croft “the idea guy” behind the plan to abduct Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

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2022 Was a Year of Bad, Botched Death Row Executions

Fortunately, government kills fewer prisoners each year.

Reason

Dad-of-eight on death row living in constant 'torture' waiting to be decapitated

Hussain Abu-al-Khair is currently living in a prison cell in Saudi Arabia with no idea when he will be killed as his sister fights for justice for his life.

Daily Record

A Place In The Sun buyers refuse to view 'old fashioned prison'

The house hunters refused to step a single for inside after seeing the exterior

Liverpool Echo

11 convicted over deadly extremist attack in Ivory Coast

Eleven people have been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of an Islamic extremist attack that killed 19 people and injured dozens more on an Ivory Coast tourist beach nearly seven years ago

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Second ringleader in Whitmer kidnap plot sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The second of two ringleaders in the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to 19.6 years in prison and five years of supervised release.

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2nd ringleader in Whitmer kidnap plot sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison

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Supreme Court asked to stop judges from considering ‘acquitted conduct’ during sentencing

Judges sometimes add prison time for crimes defendants were accused of — even if juries found them innocent. And the Supreme Court has turned down numerous appeals asking it to declare that the Constitution forbids it.

Chicago Sun-Times

Second ringleader in Whitmer kidnapping plot sentenced, gets more than 19 years in prison

Barry Croft Jr., 47, had faced a possible life sentence over the plot.

Axios

Probe after prisoner dies in Scottish jail on Christmas Eve

A PROBE is to be launched into the death of a prisoner in a Scottish jail on Christmas Eve ...

The National (Scotland)

With Biden and US officials making deals, could other Texans detained abroad be home soon?

WASHINGTON — After the White House secured the release of WNBA star and Houston native Brittney Griner from Russian prison in early December — the U.S.’s second prisoner swap of the year with Russia — it committed to bringing home all other Americans wrongfully detained abroad.

Tribune News Service

Irish crime victims and families will soon have a say on when murderers and serious criminals can get freed from prison

The Parole Board is now urging victims of crime to engage with the parole process

Irish Mirror

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The Independent UK

Kosovo Serb whose arrest caused crisis released from jail

The lawyer for a former Kosovo Serb policeman has been ordered released from prison and placed under house arrest

Chicago Sun-Times

The hiring process for people who investigate abuse in Illinois prisons is mismanaged, the state says

The finding raises questions about the qualifications of the investigators who are crucial in holding abusive guards accountable.

The Independent UK

Andy Murray near tears as Nazanin tells how she watched him win Wimbledon from prison

Sir Andy Murray asked Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe about her time in prison in Iran

Daily Record

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe watched Sir Andy Murray win Wimbledon from Iranian prison solitary confinement

Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe told how watching the tennis ace at Wimbledon gave her a 'connection' to the outside world and offered her an 'escape' from her six-year detention.

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The National (Scotland)

Emotional Andy Murray told Wimbledon win was 'escape' for Brit detained in Iran

NAZANIN Zaghari-Ratcliffe has recalled watching Sir Andy Murray win Wimbledon from solitary confinement in an Iranian prison, during an emotional…

Miami Herald

Why was an endangered Key deer killed? Reason could mark the fate of shooting suspect.

A 77-year-old Florida Keys woman is accused of the shooting death of an endangered Key deer and could face a year in federal prison if she’s convicted.

The Independent UK

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s emotional meeting with tennis star Sir Andy Murray

They spoke about Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s experiences while detained in Iran, including how she watched Sir Andy’s 2016 Wimbledon win.

The Independent UK

Andy Murray astonished by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s ‘most incredible story’

Zaghari-Ratcliffe was imprisoned in Iran for six years until her release earlier this year.

Manchester Evening News

ITV Emmerdale fans 'work out' how Cain Dingle will get out of prison as they plead amid affair prediction

Cain is stuck behind bars while his long-lost brother Caleb gets to know his extended family

Edinburgh Live

Family of one of Scotland's oldest prisoners beg for his early release

The family of 75-year-old Jim McDonald are begging prison chiefs to allow him home in time for New Year, while he struggles with dementia.

Asharq Al-Awsat

The Iranian Feminist Movement... Why and How?

In September, a girl named Mahsa was murdered by government agents. Her death was like throwing a lit match into a petrol tank. People took to the streets in more than a hundred Iranian cities and demanded the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. Did all the protesters know Mahsa? No,…

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