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Family lawyer: Police shooting caught on video was execution
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — The lawyer for the family of a man fatally shot by police after he allegedly stole a pair of sunglasses from a Virginia shopping mall called the death “an execution” after seeing video of the shooting for the first time Wednesday. Family of Timothy McCree Johnson viewed the body camera video for the first time at the invitation of the Fairfax County Police Department nearly a month after two officers ran after Johnson and then shot him outside Tysons Corner Center, one of the busiest malls in northern Virginia. Attorney Carl Crews said nothing in the video shows anything to explain why officers would have reasonably…
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Judge: State must preserve evidence from halted execution
ATMORE, Ala. — A federal decide on Friday requested Alabama to maintain data and professional medical materials affiliated with a deadly injection try right after the prison technique acknowledged several attempts to obtain the inmate’s veins just before contacting off the execution. U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. issued the purchase at the ask for of the inmate’s legal professionals who are seeking to collect far more facts about what happened in the course of Alabama’s endeavor to execute Alan Miller, 57. Miller was sentenced to dying immediately after being convicted of a 1999 office rampage in which he killed Terry Jarvis, Lee Holdbrooks and Scott Yancy. The U.S.…
