Check out a photo released by the Utah Department of Corrections of the chair that will be used when Ronnie Lee Gardner will be executed by firing squad at the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah, on 18 June.
Gardner will be executed for the killing of an attorney in an escape attempt in 1985. [...]
A prison inmate in Utah will face a firing squad in June, mark the state’s first execution in more than 10 years and the first by firearms since 1996.
A state judge today (April 23) signed the death warrant for 49-year-old Ronnie Lee Gardner, who was convicted of murdering an attorney during an escape attempt from [...]
A Haitian-born, U.S. waiter has filed suit against the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Naples, FL, for allegedly honoring the request of a British couple not to be served by “people of colour” or by people with foreign accents.
A spokeswoman for the luxury hotel chain declined to comment on the lawsuit except to say that the hotel [...]
Deep on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, scientists have found the first animals that can survive and reproduce entirely without oxygen.
Reports the BBC:
The team, led by Roberto Danovaro from Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, Italy, found three new species from the Loricifera group.
He told BBC World Service they were about a millimeter in size [...]
Talk about being at the wrong place at the wrong time!
A man in Georgia who was running on the beach on Hilton Head Island, S.C., listening to his iPod, was struck and instantly killed by an airplane that had lost its propeller and was making an emergency landing.
Woodstock, GA resident Robert Jones likely didn’t see [...]
