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Black People Are Wrongly Convicted Of Murder More Often, Data Show

3:22pm March 07, 2017

by Rebecca Hersher

More than half of the 52 people exonerated of murder last year in the U.S. were black, an annual report found. The number of people exonerated also hit a record high for the third year in a row.

A New Orleans police officer strings up used crime scene tape at the scene of a drive-by shooting in the Central City neighborhood. One hundred people were shot in New Orleans by Feb. 10 — about a month sooner than recent years.

National

New Orleans And The Hard Work Of Pushing Down The Murder Rate

5:41pm February 23, 2017

by Martin Kaste

President Trump is promising to crack down on crime. But police crackdowns have already been tried in cities such as New Orleans, which is now enduring a resurgence in homicide.

A new study finds meerkats are the most murderous mammals.

Science

What Meerkat Murder Tells Us About Human Violence

6:49pm September 28, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

What is the most murderous mammal? A new study says it's the meerkat. But the study argues that over all of human history, humans are still more lethally violent than the average mammal.

Ingmar Guandique is escorted from the Violent Crimes Unit by police in Washington, D.C., in 2009.

National

Prosecutors Move To Drop Murder Charges Against Man Accused Of Killing Chandra Levy

6:32pm July 28, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Prosecutors say information received this week means Ingmar Guandique, who was convicted in 2010, should not face a new trial. Levy was a 24-year-old intern in D.C. when she was murdered in 2001.

Friends and family carry Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch's body at her funeral.

'Honor Killings' Are A Global Problem — And Often Invisible

5:50pm July 19, 2016

by Malaka Gharib

The murder of the social media star Qandeel Baloch is not just a Pakistani problem. So-called "honor killings" happen all over the world. Activists are trying to stop them.

Protesters demanding justice in the murder of environmental activist Berta CÃ¡ceres gather outside the prosecutor's office, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on April 5.

4 Arrested In Murder Of Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres

10:07pm May 02, 2016

by Laura Wagner

Some of the suspects are said to have ties to DESA, the company building an electric dam protested by the environmental activist.

Los Angeles Police Capt. Andy Neiman announced in March that a knife possibly linked to the murder of O.J. Simpson's ex-wife was undergoing forensic tests. Those tests have determined that it was not involved in the crime.

National

Knife Purportedly Found At O.J. Simpson's Former Home Is Not Murder Weapon

8:43pm April 01, 2016

by Laura Wagner

LA detectives have determined that a knife turned in recently as possible evidence was not the weapon used to kill Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994.

National

Woman Charged With Murder In Car Crash On Las Vegas Strip

5:33pm December 22, 2015

by Laura Wagner

Lakeisha Holloway allegedly killed one person and injured three dozen others when she drove her car onto a busy pedestrian walkway. Prosecutors have charged her with murder, saying it was intentional.

PROFILE: Young Prosecutor In Gray Case Shows No Tolerance For Police Misconduct

12:12am May 02, 2015

by Jackie Northam

Marilyn Mosby promised to tackle violent crime and police misconduct when she took office in January. She wasted no time in leveling charges against six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray.

Detective Mark Williams (right) speaks with an officer in Richmond, Va. A decade ago, amid a surge in violent crime, Richmond police were identifying relatively few murder suspects. So the police department refocused its efforts to bring up its "clearance

National

Open Cases: Why One-Third Of Murders In America Go Unresolved

10:22pm March 30, 2015

by Martin Kaste

Police today are identifying fewer murder suspects than they did a generation ago. One criminologist says that may be because departments are more focused on preventing crimes than on making arrests.

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