The former husband of a Massachusetts mother has returned to the witness stand in her murder trial to testify about the day she killed their three children. Patrick Clancy previously testified Monday about her deteriorating mental health in the months before the killings. He is expected to testify Wednesday about the day in January 2023 when she killed the children, ages 5 and younger. Jurors are expected to hear evidence for weeks including dueling views about her culpability and mental state. Although Clancy has pleaded not guilty, her attorney has laid out an insanity defense. Prosecutors argue that she strangled the children in well-planned murders.
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Florida has become the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in one day, putting to death an ex-police officer convicted of murder and only the second octogenarian known to receive a lethal injection in modern U.S. history. Ex-police officer James Aren Duckett was pronounced dead after a three-drug injection Tuesday afternoon at Florida State Prison. He was convicted of the 1987 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. Hours later, 80-year-old Dominick Anthony Occhicone was executed for the 1986 killing of his ex-girlfriend’s parents. Florida has now carried out 12 executions this year — more than all other states combined. In 2017, Arkansas executed two men in a single day.
Florida puts 80-year-old man to death for a double murder, hours after executing ex-police officer for a girl’s killing.
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A teenager who killed two students and two teachers in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia has been sentenced to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole. Sixteen-year-old Colt Gray had pleaded guilty Friday to charges including murder in the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting that also left several others wounded. Barrow County Superior Court Judge Nicholas Primm handed down the sentence Tuesday after hearing testimony and considering evidence from both sides. Gray was 14 at the time of the shooting and was charged as an adult. Investigators testified that Gray idolized other mass shooters and studied their methods before carrying out the attack.
Florida carries out first of 2 executions planned in a single day, putting ex-police officer to death for girl’s killing.
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A judge has ruled there’s enough evidence to send singer D4vd to trial for the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The Los Angeles judge on Monday decided the evidence presented during a preliminary hearing provided probable cause for charges of murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child, and unlawful mutilation of human remains. D4vd, whose legal name is David Burke, has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors allege Burke met Rivas Hernandez when she was 11 and began abusing her at 13. They claim he killed her when she threatened to report him. Burke’s music career was rising before these allegations emerged.
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Police say at least three people exchanged gunfire at a food festival near Seattle’s Space Needle over the weekend. One of them died in the violence Sunday during the Bite of Seattle festival. Police believe there were at least three shooters: a 15-year-old arrested in the case; a 19-year-old acquaintance who died at the scene; and at least one other “unknown suspect.” The 15-year-old waived his initial court appearance Monday. Police say the shooting may have been gang-related. Two other people died and at least four were injured.
A Massachusetts woman is on trial in a case where her lawyers argue that postpartum psychosis was the reason she killed her three children, aged 5 and younger. Opening statements in Lindsay Clancy's trial began Monday. Jurors are expected to hear evidence for weeks, including dueling views about her culpability and mental state. Clancy has pleaded not guilty and her attorney has laid out an insanity defense. Prosecutors argue she strangled Cora, Dawson, and Callan in well-planned murders in January 2023. At the time, she had been getting psychiatric care for about four months.
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Savannah Guthrie says her family is living a nightmare nearly six months after her mother's disappearance. In a video released Monday, she pleads with her mother's kidnappers to reveal her location. Eighty-four-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her home near Tucson, Arizona, on February 1. Authorities believe she was taken against her will. Blood was found near her doorstep, and surveillance footage showed a masked man on her porch. The FBI is evaluating ransom notes, some of which have been dismissed as extortion attempts. Savannah Guthrie has offered a $1 million reward for information leading to her mother's recovery.
A series of high-profile criminal cases is in court this week for hearings and testimony that could prove pivotal. Four of the cases have celebrity defendants or victims. The hearings and trials include a prosecution for the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur and the murder case against singer D4vd. Also in court were attorneys for social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, and the man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie. Some of the hearings could determine final resolution of the charges.