No Charges Filed In Shooting Of OK Police Chief: The Oklahoma man accused of shooting a police chief multiple times during an attempted arrest last week likely will not face any criminal charges. CBS News reports that a man claiming to be Dallas Horton called 911 Thursday morning to report a bomb threat at a local elementary school. When officers responded to his home, Horton fired several shots-hitting the police chief three times in the chest and once in the arm. Horton claims that he didn't know that the police had entered his home and that he was unable to hear them identify themselves.
TX Set to Execute Triple-Murderer: A Texas man sentenced to death for a triple-murder more than two decades ago set to be executed by lethal injection Wednesday evening. Michelle Casady of My San Antonio reports that 41-year-old Arnold Prieto was convicted of robbing and stabbing to death three elderly people in 1993. Two of the victims happened to be his great uncle and great aunt. Another man charged in the killings was 17-years-old at the time of the crime and was ordered to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Supreme Court Sides With Bearded Muslim Inmate: In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing a Muslim prisoner incarcerated in Arkansas to grow a short beard for religious purposes. The Associated Press reports that the court decided that Gregory Holt, who is serving a life sentence for brutally attacking his girlfriend, will be allowed to maintain a half-inch beard while incarcerated. Prior to the ruling, Arkansas prison officials had prevented Holt from growing a beard citing security concerns.
TX Set to Execute Triple-Murderer: A Texas man sentenced to death for a triple-murder more than two decades ago set to be executed by lethal injection Wednesday evening. Michelle Casady of My San Antonio reports that 41-year-old Arnold Prieto was convicted of robbing and stabbing to death three elderly people in 1993. Two of the victims happened to be his great uncle and great aunt. Another man charged in the killings was 17-years-old at the time of the crime and was ordered to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Supreme Court Sides With Bearded Muslim Inmate: In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing a Muslim prisoner incarcerated in Arkansas to grow a short beard for religious purposes. The Associated Press reports that the court decided that Gregory Holt, who is serving a life sentence for brutally attacking his girlfriend, will be allowed to maintain a half-inch beard while incarcerated. Prior to the ruling, Arkansas prison officials had prevented Holt from growing a beard citing security concerns.
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