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South Carolina GOP senators consider ban on transgender care for children, joining a growing list of states

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group of South Carolina Republican lawmakers are looking to join a handful of other states that have passed restrictions on certain medical care for transgender children.

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Builder, 34, wins massive £3million Omaze home and huge £100k jackpot in raffle

Builder Kevin Johnson, 34, won the four-bed Victorian-style town house in Islinghton, north London, in a £50-a-ticket raffle set up by Omaze Million Pound House Draw

Daily Mirror

Missouri prisoner Leonard Taylor appeals to the Supreme Court, seeking to halt his execution

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Attorneys for Missouri prisoner Leonard “Raheem” Taylor, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday amid mounting calls for his innocence claims to be vetted, have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Civil rights groups seek halt to Missouri execution

The president of the national NAACP is urging Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to halt the execution of Raheem Taylor, who is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for the deaths of his girlfriend and her three children

The Independent UK

Homebuyers lured by dip in mortgage rates still higher than a year ago

ATLANTA — It wasn’t the price, it was the rate.

Tribune News Service

Spiritual advisers offering final comfort in execution rooms

For decades, Missouri executions played out in similar fashion: An inmate was strapped to a gurney in a drab room, alone except for the eyes of witnesses staring through thick glass as unidentified executioners administered the lethal chemical from behind a cinderblock wall

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Cheeka the broken hearted Leeds dog looking for her forever home

Cheeka is an eight-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier Cross

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Missouri executes transgender inmate convicted of murdering ex-girlfriend in 2003

BONNE TERRE, Mo. — Missouri on Tuesday executed by lethal injection a transgender inmate who stabbed, strangled and raped an ex-girlfriend 19 years ago.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Where does Missouri get the drugs it uses to execute prisoners? The supplier is a secret

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For the first time since 2015, Missouri has returned to executing multiple people on death row per year — two in 2022 and two scheduled so far for 2023 — but details about the process remain shrouded in secrecy.

Tribune News Service

‘She was failed’: Missouri woman scheduled for execution next month asks for clemency

Attorneys for a transgender woman scheduled to be executed next month in Missouri are asking for clemency, in part because of her history of abuse and intellectual disability.

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Girl, 19, banned from watching her dad be executed says ‘justice system failed me’

Khorry Ramey, from Missouri, saw her father Kevin Johnson, 37, for the last time on Tuesday before he was executed by lethal injection for killing a Missouri police officer in 2005

Daily Mirror

Babcock race director says he expects a higher turnout at next year's event

Babcock has confirmed its continued sponsorship of the local 10K series for 2023, having first sponsored the events back in 2017.

Daily Record

In Arizona, losing candidate points to perceived conflict

Republican Kari Lake and supporters of her failed campaign for Arizona governor are attacking Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs as having a conflict of interest for overseeing the election she won

The Independent UK

Missouri ignores daughter’s pleas and executes man over 2005 murder of police officer

On Tuesday evening, the conservative-heavy US Supreme Court denied Kevin Johnson’s request for a stay of execution, based on arguments that racial bias played a part in his sentence

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Death row murderer makes no final words and refuses last meal before execution

Kevin Johnson was handed the death penalty for the murder of police officer William McEntee.

Daily Mirror

Kevin Johnson makes no final words and refuses last meal before execution

A convicted murderer refused to give a final statement and turned down the offer of a last meal in the hours before his execution on Tuesday as protests continued against his sentence

Tribune News Service

Kevin Johnson executed in Missouri for 2005 killing of police officer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The state of Missouri carried out the execution of Kevin Johnson on Tuesday evening, The Associated Press reported.

Daily Mirror

Kevin Johnson, 37, executed for killing police officer despite late appeals

A death row inmate who was sentenced to death for ambushing and killing a police officer has been executed by lethal injection despite a number of late appeals

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The Independent UK

Missouri to execute Kevin Johnson despite daughter’s pleas and findings of racist conviction

Local official argues prosecutor had biased intent seeking death penalty

The Independent UK

Missouri prepares to execute man for killing officer in 2005

A Missouri inmate convicted of ambushing and killing a St. Louis area police officer he blamed in the death of his younger brother is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, though his lawyers are seeking to have the lethal injection halted

The Independent UK

The teen desperate to attend her father’s execution — and the court that won’t allow it

Kevin Johnson shot a police officer in 2005 and was sentenced to death when his daughter was just two years old. Now, she is having to fight for the unthinkable. Josh Marcus reports

The Independent UK

Missouri Supreme Court weighs fate of death row inmate

Attorneys for a Black man on Missouri's death row say he might not be facing execution if he were white

Reason

Court to Girl: You Have To Wait 2 Years To Comfort Your Father as He Dies. And We're Killing Him Next Week.

Missouri law bans those under 21 from witnessing executions. Despite attempts to challenge the law, 19-year-old Khorry Ramey will be barred from attending her father's execution on Tuesday.

Daily Mirror

Girl, 19, desperate to watch dad be executed denied chance as she's 'too young'

Khorry Ramey was just two when her dad Kevin Johnson was locked away but they have developed a relationship over the years and she wanted the closure of being their when the state execute him

The Independent UK

Judge denies 19-year-old's ask to attend father's execution

A federal judge has denied a request from a 19-year-old woman to allow her to watch her father’s death by injection

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