The Chicago rapper was arrested in 2024 and accused of involvement in a shooting that killed the cousin of rival rapper Quando Rondo.
BBC News – World Prosecutors accused musician, born Durk Banks, of putting bounty on fellow rapper in retaliation for friend’s killing Chicago rapper Lil Durk has been acquitted of all charges in a murder-for-hire scheme, in which a man was fatally gunned down in 2022. Prosecutors had accused Lil Durk , born Durk Banks, of putting a bounty on Atlanta rapper Tayquian Bowman’s life in retaliation for the 2020 shooting death of Banks’s…
Prosecutors accused musician, born Durk Banks, of putting bounty on fellow rapper in retaliation for friend’s killing Chicago rapper Lil Durk has been acquitted of all charges in a murder-for-hire scheme, in which a man was fatally gunned down in 2022. Prosecutors had accused Lil Durk , born Durk Banks, of putting a bounty on Atlanta rapper Tayquian Bowman’s life in retaliation for the 2020 shooting death of Banks’s…
BBC News – World A federal jury in Los Angeles has acquitted Grammy-winning Chicago rapper Lil Durk in a murder-for-hire plot targeting another rapper.
NPR – US New York Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed state Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor to investigate an alleged gang-rape at a Cornell University fraternity house. Hochul said she no longer has faith in the local district attorney's handling of the case. The appointment follows renewed scrutiny of a 2024 university investigation and the release of documents in which the accuser said she felt "like bait."
NPR – US The botched execution in Tennessee of Christa Pike, who survived despite being subject to two doses of lethal injection on Wednesday, has reignited furious debate about the death penalty in the U.S.
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.
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