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Today — 10 December 2025Main stream

Supreme Court Hears Death Penalty Case on Intellectual Disability

10 December 2025 at 18:04
The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests.

© Eric Lee for The New York Times

Two decades ago, the Supreme Court barred the execution of people with mental disabilities as a violation of the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. But the court’s composition has changed since then.

Cruise Passenger Was Served 33 Drinks Before Deadly Encounter With Crew, Suit Says

10 December 2025 at 03:55
Michael Virgil, 35, became agitated on a Royal Caribbean ship and was restrained by at least five crew members, including some who stood on his back, before he died, the medical examiner said.

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The Navigator of the Seas in 2021. Michael Virgil and his family were aboard this ship when he died in December 2024.

Man Charged With Attempted Murder in Shooting of Jets Player Kris Boyd

10 December 2025 at 02:35
Weeks after the shooting, Frederick Green, 20, was taken into custody near Buffalo and brought back to Manhattan, the police said.

© Adam Hunger/Associated Press

Kris Boyd was shot outside a Manhattan nightclub just after 2 a.m. on Nov. 16, after a group of men approached him and three friends and a fight ensued.
Yesterday — 9 December 2025Main stream

Russian Court Sentences 4 Soldiers to Prison for Killing Texan

9 December 2025 at 06:07
Russell Bonner Bentley III, 64, who was living in the occupied Donbas region of Ukraine, was beaten and tortured to death after he was suspected of being an American saboteur, investigators said.

© Brendan Hoffman

Russell Bonner Bentley III visiting a memorial to victims of Nazi killings, in Donetsk, Ukraine, in 2017.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Cold Case Inquiries Stall After Ancestry.com Revisits Policy for Users

8 December 2025 at 04:46
The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records.

© Bryan Anselm for The New York Times

David Gurney, head of Ramapo College’s Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center in New Jersey, said losing access to Ancestry had hindered crucial work.
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