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Amber Guyger served seven years of a 10-year murder sentence in a case that drew national attention and inflamed racial tensions.
Amber Guyger, who has served seven of 10-year sentence, had said she had walked into Botham Jean’s home thinking it was her own when she shot him A former Dallas police officer convicted of murdering her Black neighbor after walking into his apartment thinking it was her own was granted early parole on Thursday after serving seven years of her 10-year sentence. Amber Guyger, 38, who is white, was convicted of murder…
NYTimes – US Amber Guyger served seven years of a 10-year murder sentence in a case that drew national attention and inflamed racial tensions.
NYTimes – US Amber Guyger served seven years of a 10-year murder sentence in a case that drew national attention and inflamed racial tensions.
NPR – US Tennessee Governor Bill Lee ordered a review of the state's lethal injection process and paused executions after Christa Pike survived two botched lethal injection doses. Pike, 50, convicted of a 1995 murder, was the only woman on Tennessee's death row and had been scheduled for execution Wednesday. Her lawyer said she was left in critical condition.
NYTimes – US Tennessee's attempt to execute death row inmate Christa Pike by lethal injection was botched, and she survived, her attorneys said. The incident revived debate over botched lethal injections in the U.S. and echoed a May attempt on Tony Carruthers, when the state said it could not find a suitable vein. Pike's attorneys called the execution "torturous" and said they had warned it could be botched.
NPR – Politics Citing "exceptional circumstances," a D.C. judge has ruled that the federal government cannot refile its Reflecting Pool charges against David Hearn, despite pressure from President Trump to do so.
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