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The mother of Ryan Clinkunbroomer, a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy killed earlier this month in an ambush-style attack, blasted L.A. District Attorney George Gascón’s decision against seeking the death penalty for her son’s suspected killer. In an interview with ABC News, Kim Clinkunbroomer revealed she learned along with the rest of the world that Gascón planned to ask for life in prison without the possibility of parole for Kevin Cantaneo Salazar. He’s facing one count of murder in connection with Ryan’s slaying. “It just seems that the district attorney wants to spare a life, when [th......

On Tuesday evening, two guards at a Missouri prison clicked their flashlights off, the room darkening for a split second, and opened a set of dark blue curtains revealing the execution chamber. The witnesses leaned forward, staring at Michael Tisius, who was lying on a gurney with a white sheet up to his face. His head was turned to the left, towards his spiritual advisor who was seated next to him. Years of tribulation had led up to this moment. Tisius was neglected and abused as a child by his family. When he was 19, he met Roy Vance, who convinced him to help him escape from the Randolph Co......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The state of Missouri on Tuesday evening executed Michael Tisius, who fatally shot two guards during a botched jail escape more than two decades ago. Tisius, 42, died by lethal injection at 6:10 p.m. at a prison in eastern Missouri. In a handwritten final statement, Tisius, 42, said he was “sorry it had to come to this” and that he “really did try to become a better man.” “I am holding tightly to my faith. It’s all I have left to take with me,” he wrote. “I am sorry it had to come to this in this way. I wish I could have made things right while I was still here.” Tisius was ......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal appeals court vacated a stay of execution that had temporarily halted the execution of Michael Tisius, scheduled for Tuesday at a prison in eastern Missouri. Tisius, 42, was convicted of killing two Randolph County jailers in 2000 during an escape attempt and was sentenced the death penalty. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough wrote that a brief stay of execution was warranted and ordered an evidentiary hearing. Attorneys for Tisius had argued that a juror was not qualified to serve on the jury because he could not read or write, a skill required by ......

Iran has executed three men accused of deadly violence during massive anti-government protests that engulfed the country last year. Saeed Yaqoubi, 37, Saleh Mirhashemi, 36, and Majid Kazemi, 30, were accused of killing three people last November in Isfahan, about 210 miles south of Tehran. They were executed Friday morning, Mizan News Agency reported. The execution took place at Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan, despite intense pressure and condemnation from human rights organizations in Iran and abroad, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency. Human rights groups claim Iranian authoriti......

DAVIS, Calif. — A decision on whether to seek a death penalty prosecution against the suspect in a series of stabbings in Davis may be months away, with prosecutors studying every available aspect of the background of Carlos Reales Dominguez. “You go by the book,” Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig said in an interview Friday in his Woodland office shortly after Reales Dominguez pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one of attempted murder. Reisig would not discuss specifics of the Reales Dominguez case. But he said his office follows a laborious procedure to determine the back......