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Death row inmate is first to be executed in Arizona while his victim’s family watch the lethal injection

Death-row inmate Samuel Villegas Lopez stared straight ahead Wednesday as he lay strapped to a table in Arizona’s execution chamber, wincing slightly as two catheters that soon would deliver a fatal drug were inserted into his veins.

Lopez’s execution was the first in Arizona history in which witnesses other than prison officials saw catheters inserted into an inmate’s veins – a move the state Department of Corrections made after a federal [...]

Italy scientists say they have found oldest human blood

Breathtaking discovery: Oetzi’s body emerging from the glacier where he was found 22 years ago. Since then he has been the subject of various experiments – and even a curse conspiracy

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2138433/Coldest-cold-cases-Scientists-recover-worlds-oldest-blood-sample-murder-victim-preserved-ice-5-000-years.html#ixzz1tkCIkmZm

 

Scientists examining the remains of “Otzi,” Italy’s prehistoric iceman who roamed the Alps some 5,300 years ago, said on Wednesday they have isolated what are believed to be the oldest traces of human blood ever found.

The German and Italian [...]

Coldest of cold cases: Scientists recover world’s oldest blood sample from a murder victim preserved in ice for 5,000 years

Scientists have discovered what is thought to be the oldest blood sample known to man on the body of a 5,000 year old mummy found in an Italian glacier.

The modern-day cold case investigation has thrown new light onto the life of Oetzi the Iceman, as he has been dubbed by experts, after being discovered in a frozen glacier 22 years ago.

A series of tests have revealed what his last meal [...]

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp to be sued in U.S. for phone hacking

According to AP:

LONDON — A group of British phone-hacking victims plan to ask U.S. courts to look into possible “corrupt practices” at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., a lawyer said Friday. The move could broaden the scope of a scandal that has shaken the mogul’s international media empire.

British attorney Mark Lewis told The Associated Press that he had retained American lawyer Norman Siegel, who represents the [...]

REPORT: FBI PROBES MURDOCH

By TOM HAYS

Associated Press

NEW YORK —

A law enforcement official says the FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. sought to hack into the phones of Sept. 11 victims.

The official spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

New York City-based News Corp. has been in crisis mode.

A rival newspaper reported last week that the company’s [...]

NYC Family Sues FACEBOOK Over Image Of Daughter’s Corpse

Mark Musarella, Caroline Wimmer/SIlive.com

via CBS News:

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The outraged family of a local murder victim is taking on Facebook.

It was a paramedic who took the crime scene photos, and posted them on the site, but is Facebook, itself, to blame?

It’s a case of what the family is calling “disrespecting the dead,” reports CBS 2’s John Slattery.

Martha and Ronald Wimmer think that the photographing and posting of their [...]