Pressure on widow and circle in Boston bombing case
Federal agents intensify scrutiny of Katherine Russell and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s college friends. Investigators seek cooperation to uncover ties to a terror network, while Russell remains under constant surveillance at her parents’ North Kingston Rhode Island home.
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Boston Marathon
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Tamerlan
Katherine Russell
Russell
David Zlotnick
Roger Williams University
District of Columbia
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North Kingstown
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Scottsboro pardons face lengthy process in Alabama
Alabama moves toward posthumous pardons for the Scottsboro Boys, nine black teens wrongly convicted in 1931. Despite legislative action authorizing pardons, applications must reach the Board of Pardons and Paroles via circuits showing remedy of racial injustice, followed by a public hearing and vote. No filings have been received yet. advocates expect them soon.
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Sheila Washington
Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center
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Scottsboro
Supremacist given 26 years for murder of child molester
Charles Gaskins, 48, convicted for killing Neil Hayes in 2009, received 26 years to life after a no contest plea. His wife Sandra Sheaves, 43, was sentenced to eight years for accessory to murder after Megan's Law disclosure spurred the attack. Hayes was a registered sex offender found dead in Placerville after the confrontation at a Carmichael home.
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