Tag: Prisoner

Arizona Prisoner Won’t Be Executed in Gas Chamber

PHOENIX—An Arizona prisoner is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in less than three weeks for killing an 8-year-old girl, marking the second condemned man to decline lethal gas since the state refurbished its gas chamber—a method of execution that hasn’t been used in the United States in more than 20 years. Frank Atwood…


ISIS Terrorist Responsible for Kabul Airport Bombing Was Prisoner Released by Taliban: Congressman

The ISIS-K terrorist who carried out a suicide bomb attack in August outside of Kabul’s airport in Afghanistan had reportedly been released from prison just days before the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, according to a top U.S. official. “U.S. national security officials have now confirmed to me the reports that the Aug. 26 Kabul bomber…


ISIS-K Terrorist Responsible for Kabul Airport Bombing Was Prisoner Freed by Taliban: Congressman

The ISIS-K terrorist who carried out a suicide bomb attack in August outside of the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, had reportedly been released from prison just days before the Taliban’s overthrow of the government, according to a U.S. lawmaker. “U.S. national security officials have now confirmed to me the reports that the Aug. 26 Kabul…


French Policewoman Stabbed by Ex-Prisoner on Potential Threat Watch List

CHAPELLE-SUR-ERDRE, France—A radicalized French ex-prisoner on a watch list of potential terrorist threats stabbed a policewoman inside her station in western France on Friday and died following a shoot-out with police, a government minister said. The victim was seriously wounded but expected to survive, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. The assailant had been released from…


US Denies Iran’s Claims of Prisoner, Cash Swap; UK Downplays

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The United States on Sunday immediately denied a report by Iranian state-run television that deals had been reached for the Islamic Republic to release U.S. and British prisoners in exchange for Tehran receiving billions of dollars. Even after an initial American denial, an anchorwoman on Iranian state TV still repeated the announcement….