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The next morning, June 29, many prisoners were rounded up into the courtyards of the central prison, and were shot and killed by gunfire from the rooftops. More than 1,200 prisoners were killed over the course of two days. [1] About 270 inmates from Block 2 and inmates from Block 1 were not shot, but were moved into the military section of the ...
The riot broke out after 120 inmates had been brought back from a court in Tripoli where 20 death sentences and long prison sentences against them had been upheld. The inmates had been sentenced because of membership in an illegal group, probably the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG). [25] The inmates had been imprisoned since the mid-1990s.
Excerpts of body-worn camera footage from four corrections officers were released Dec. 27 by the New York Attorney General’s Office showing the in-custody beating of the 43-year-old inmate. In ...
Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the Libyan militia leader convicted for his role in the deadly 2012 terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, was resentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison, despite ...
Four Americans died in the 2012 Benghazi attack: Ambassador Chris Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith, [1] and two CIA operatives, [2] Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, [3] [4] both former Navy SEALs. [5] [6] Stevens is the first U.S. ambassador killed in an attack since Adolph Dubs was killed in 1979. [7]
New Zealand: 17 February 1957 [4] Walter James Bolton: murder: hanging: A Niue: never used: A Palau: none since independence on 1 October 1994 [34] A Papua New Guinea: none since independence on 16 September 1975 [4] [178] A Western Samoa: none since independence on 1 January 1962 [4] A Solomon Islands: none since independence on 7 July 1978 [4 ...
The Federal Bureau of Prisons failed to prevent the deaths of 187 inmates who died by suicide over the course of eight years, a Justice Department watchdog found.
He participated in the 2012 Benghazi attack on the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, in which Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed. [ 3 ] In a December 2013 article about the attack, The New York Times described him as a central figure in the attack [ 4 ] according to Libyan witnesses, although he had ...