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The 1974 Huntsville Prison siege was an eleven-day prison uprising that took place from July 24 to August 3, 1974, at the Huntsville Walls Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections in Huntsville, Texas. The standoff was one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in United States history.
This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States.The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer(s) was convicted, the name of the officer(s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...
Houston, Texas Hayden was among six killed in a crash that also killed two of his former college teammates. A Chrysler 300 reportedly ran a red light colliding with the vehicle Hayden was in. Nicky Hayden: 1981 2017 35 years American motorcycle racer bicycle S-Works Venge Cesena, Italy Car driver drove at 43 mph on a 30 mph zone.
Two county jail guards have been indicted on murder charges for the asphyxiation death of an inmate in Texas. The indictments, dated Tuesday, charge Joel Garcia, 48, and Rafael Moreno Jr., 37, in ...
His death was successively ruled as a skii accident, being beaten by rival smugglers, suicide by hanging, suicide by shooting and having fallen at the Eastern Front. Richter was presumably killed by the Gestapo. Tony D'Arcy: 1940-04-16 Ireland: Hunger strike: Senior leader in the Irish Republican Army: Jack McNeela: 1940-04-19 Ireland: Hunger ...
A Las Vegas judge has sentenced a Texas man to 100 years in prison for his role in a two-state shooting on Thanksgiving 2020 in which he killed a man in Nevada and engaged in a shootout with law ...
On December 13, 2000, the seven carried out an elaborate scheme and escaped from the John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security state prison near the South Texas city of Kenedy. [ 20 ] At the time of the breakout, the reported ringleader of the Texas Seven, 30-year-old George Rivas, was serving 18 consecutive 15-to-life sentences.
In Texas, there were 50 prison suicides in 2020, the highest number in at least 20 years, even though the prison population fell by 20,000. By late July, 2021 was on track to exceed that.