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Florida on Tuesday became the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in a single day, putting to death an 80-year-old man who was the second-oldest inmate known to receive a lethal injection in modern U.S. history.  Hours earlier, the state executed a former police officer convicted of the killing of a young girl. Gov. Ron DeSantis has made Florida’s death chamber the nation’s…

Ex-officer pleads guilty to manslaughter as family blasts deal

The mother of a Black man fatally shot in the United States by a white former Nashville officer sobbed, screamed and knocked over a court lectern on Friday as she begged a judge not to accept a plea deal she says was struck in secret without her knowledge, a chaotic scene that briefly delayed a hearing. Former officer Andrew Delke pleaded guilty to manslaughter and will serve a three-year prison…

Derek Chauvin: What We Know About The Ex-Officer Convicted In George Floyd’s Death

Here’s what we know about the officer convicted of Floyd’s murder on April 20. Before he knelt on Floyd’s neck, Chauvin was the one Subject of 18 previously filed complaints with the internal affairs of the Minneapolis Police Department. The police confirmed that the complaints were filed, but did not specify why they were filed or what they entailed. Only two of the 18 complaints were “closed…