SF Jails to Segregate Inmates by Gender Preference: Los Angeles Times writer James Queally reports that by the end of this year, inmates in San Francisco jails will be housed based upon their preferred gender. "It's not going to be based on genitalia alone," said San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. "We will have advisory committee, experts that help represent the transgender population," he added. The announcement was hailed by head of the New York based Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund as a possible "model for the nation." Last month California became the first state in the nation to agree to pay for a transgender inmate's reassignment surgery.
Missouri Child Rapist Executed: After 26 years of appeals, Roderick Nunley was executed by lethal injection last week for the kidnap, rape and stabbing murder of 15-year-old Ann Harrison in 1989. Kasey Babbitt and Monica Evans of Fox4kc report that on the morning of Mar. 22 of that year, the young girl was waiting in front of her home for the school bus when Nunley and an accomplice, who had been bingeing on crack cocaine, stuffed her in the trunk of a car they had just stolen. As the girl begged for her life the duo took her to the basement of Nunley's mother's home, bound her with wire and raped her. They then got knives from the kitchen and stabbed her 10 times in the torso before slitting her throat. Her body was found 36 hours later in the trunk of the stolen car.
TN High Court Upholds Death Sentence: The Tennessee Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for rapist/murderer Rickey Bell, Jr. yesterday, as reported by the Tennessee State Court website. A 2012 article from Fox19 reports on Bell's trial for the 2010 rape and murder of his employer's wife, 36-year-old mother of three Starr Harris, after an argument over his paycheck. The woman had been beaten to death. DNA evidence helped link Bell to the rape and murder. In upholding Bell's conviction and sentence, the Court concurred with a lower court finding that two of the four aggravating circumstances qualifying Bell for a death sentence were invalid, but noted that only one was required to uphold his sentence.
Missouri Child Rapist Executed: After 26 years of appeals, Roderick Nunley was executed by lethal injection last week for the kidnap, rape and stabbing murder of 15-year-old Ann Harrison in 1989. Kasey Babbitt and Monica Evans of Fox4kc report that on the morning of Mar. 22 of that year, the young girl was waiting in front of her home for the school bus when Nunley and an accomplice, who had been bingeing on crack cocaine, stuffed her in the trunk of a car they had just stolen. As the girl begged for her life the duo took her to the basement of Nunley's mother's home, bound her with wire and raped her. They then got knives from the kitchen and stabbed her 10 times in the torso before slitting her throat. Her body was found 36 hours later in the trunk of the stolen car.
TN High Court Upholds Death Sentence: The Tennessee Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for rapist/murderer Rickey Bell, Jr. yesterday, as reported by the Tennessee State Court website. A 2012 article from Fox19 reports on Bell's trial for the 2010 rape and murder of his employer's wife, 36-year-old mother of three Starr Harris, after an argument over his paycheck. The woman had been beaten to death. DNA evidence helped link Bell to the rape and murder. In upholding Bell's conviction and sentence, the Court concurred with a lower court finding that two of the four aggravating circumstances qualifying Bell for a death sentence were invalid, but noted that only one was required to uphold his sentence.
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