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Crowded and Deadly, U.S. Jails Are in Crisis
Matthew Shelton was contending with diabetes and periodic substance abuse when he moved in with his sister outside Houston in…
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Inmates Who Killed a Writer and a Publisher Escape in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Two men on death row in Bangladesh for the high-profile killings of a secular author and his…
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Alabama to Execute Man Whose Jury Voted 11-1 to Spare Him
All 12 jurors agreed to convict Kenneth Eugene Smith in the 1988 murder of a pastor’s wife in Alabama, but…
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Riddled With Metal Pellets, an Iranian Protester Heals in Hiding Abroad
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq — When Masoud, a 27-year-old computer programmer, returned to his family home in Tehran, bleeding after being shot…