Crime

Patricia Krenwinkel, a former Charles Manson follower, was granted parole on Tuesday after nearly six decades in prison for her role in the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders in Los Angeles.

This is the third time that Krenwinkel, 78, has been approved for release by California’s board of parole hearings. After both of her last two parole grants, Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, reversed the parole board’s decisions and denied her freedom, and Krenwinkel’s attorneys are now urging the Democrat to allow this latest ruling to stand.

Krenwinkel, who was 21 at the time of the 1969 killings, has been imprisoned longer than any other woman in California, and the parole board has repeatedly acknowledged her record of rehabilitation over 57 years in prison, concluding she would not in her elderly age be a danger to society.

The convicted murderer who survived two doses of a lethal injection during a botched execution in Tennessee last week is now conscious and speaking.

Christa Pike, 50, woke up Tuesday and has no memory of the execution attempt, Dr Joel Zivot, an anesthesiologist and intensive care physician who is advising her lawyers, told the BBC.

Pike was able to recall her name and incorrectly guessed the date, believing it was still the month of September, Zivot said. Pike’s botched execution took place on the evening of September 30.

“Significant jail time” likely lies ahead for a man accused of threatening the life of Prime Minister Mark Carney.

But it’s not the charge related to that matter that could land Jamie Da Costa a lengthy stay behind bars.

The 31-year-old also faces other charges not related to the alleged incident involving Carney.

Christa Pike, a Tennessee prisoner who survived the state’s attempt to execute her, is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital, her attorneys said on Tuesday.

Pike, 50, survived two doses of pentobarbital as Tennessee officials attempted to put her to death in a case that shocked many in America and created headlines around the world. She was set to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.

Yet another high-ranking Toronto cop has been shockingly criminally charged.

Senior Toronto Police officer Insp. Michael Hayles, who has in the past asked drivers to “make the right choice” and “designate a sober driver,” has now been charged himself by his own service for alleged impaired driving.

A senior Toronto police officer has been charged with impaired driving after he was found asleep behind the wheel over the weekend in Leaside, sources tell CP24.

Insp. Mike Hayles, 51, of 55 Division, was arrested at around 6 a.m. on Sunday.

Sources have told CP24 that officers were dispatched to the scene after Hayles was found asleep behind the wheel of his unmarked police-issued vehicle near the intersection of Eglinton Avenue and Laird Drive.

The mother of the teenager murdered by Christa Pike said she believes she is owed an apology following this week’s botched execution in Tennessee.

Wednesday’s execution attempt came 30 years after Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.

Pike, 50, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, is in critical condition at a hospital, unconscious and on a ventilator, after her execution failed despite two lethal injections, her attorneys said Friday.

s so-called modern Americans, we like to believe that we have risen above some of the more, so we think, violent and “barbaric” practices of our ancestors. No facet of our justice system better exemplifies this belief than the ever-evolving definition of “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Top lawyers, doctors and members of the faith community are calling for a moratorium on the US death penalty after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike left the prisoner alive but in critical condition and receiving life-saving medical care.

The recent spate of harrowingly botched executions across US death penalty states reached a new low late on Wednesday when Tennessee’s governor Bill Lee called off the procedure after Pike had been injected with two full syringes of pentobarbital. She is the only person to have survived being administered 5mg of the sedative – a massive dose that under normal circumstances is considered fatal.

She received TWO lethal injections. Should she be granted clemency? I say yes though her crime was horrific.

A Tennessee woman convicted of murder survived two doses of lethal injection on Wednesday night before state officials suspended the execution and had her taken to a hospital for medical care, her lawyers said.

It was the second botched execution in the state this year.

The apparent failure came after dueling court rulings delayed the execution of the woman, Christa Pike, by about nine hours. The state had raced to go ahead with the execution before the day ended and to avoid having to reschedule.

Mo Money Mo Problems? Not for Diddy.

Disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is reportedly living high and large inside the Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey — with access to a cellphone, booze and people catering to his every need, NBC News reported.

While he’s serving a 50-month sentence for prostitution-related offenses, Combs, 56, spends thousands of dollars a month to bring his pampered lifestyle to the Garden State lockup, according to four men who spent time in the same unit as the former hip-hop producer, speaking to the outlet on the condition of anonymity.

It took less than five minutes to install the GPS tracker.

Surveillance footage from a drizzly January night earlier this year reportedly captured the scene as former actress turned private investigator Jennifer Jasey allegedly snuck into a parking garage, found the car she was after, had the device stuck on its undercarriage and slipped back into the elevator.

In the days that followed, Jasey is alleged to have used the tracker to follow the car’s owner, a woman in the process of divorcing an ex-husband she accused of domestic abuse, in an effort to find out where she lived and whether she had a boyfriend.

Anyone who’s serious about working in the crisis management field can tell you the whole story of the Chicago Tylenol murders of 1982, and specifically how Johnson & Johnson (J&J), maker of Tylenol, responded. The case study is the granddaddy of modern crisis management and the way it should be done.

For months, officers had been covertly stationed outside the flat, red-brick plaza on Ordan Drive in Mississauga, just a short drive from Toronto Pearson airport, listening in on the conversations inside.

Investigators believed Unit D of the building was being used as a staging ground for mass amounts of cannabis; a final stop for the drugs to be packed into suitcases affixed with GPS trackers before they were smuggled through Pearson to international destinations such as Greece.