QUITO: Over 50 inmates were left dead and several others wounded during deadly riots at three jails in Ecuador on Tuesday. The national police said on Twitter the death toll stood at “more than 50” prisoners after unrest at facilities in the provinces of Guayas, Azuay and Cotopaxi. Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno, also on Twitter, […]
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US government will execute inmates for first time since 2003
WASHINGTON: The Justice Department said Thursday the federal government will resume executing death-row inmates for the first time since 2003, ending an informal moratorium even as the nation sees a broad shift away from capital punishment. Attorney General William Barr instructed the Bureau of Prisons to schedule executions starting in December for five men, all […]