Murders by firearms have increased dramatically in the state of Florida since 2000, when there were 499 gun murders, according to data from Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Gun murders have since climbed 38 percent — with 691 murders committed with guns in 2011.... Read more»
Fourteen dismembered bodies were found in a truck parked outside city hall in the Mexican town of Ciudad Mante.... Read more»
Gunmen killed 11 people and wounded as many as 10 others at a drug rehabilitation center in northern Mexico on Sunday, almost a year to the day after a similar attack nearby.... Read more»
Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president ousted in last year’s Arab Spring uprisings, has been convicted of involvement in the murder of nearly 1,000 protesters and sentenced to life in prison.... Read more»
El Salvador’s vicious gangs have called a cease-fire, enticed in part by conjugal visits for incarcerated leaders. Salvadorans are skeptical it will last.... Read more»
Daniel Elizondo, a leader of the Zetas drug cartel in Mexico, was arrested in connection to the killings of 49 people whose decapitated and dismembered corpses were found dumped next to a highway last week.... Read more»
Charles Taylor, the former Liberian leader, has been found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes during Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war, at his trial in The Hague.... Read more»
An announcement Monday that the remains of 12 young women and girls were found near the Texas-Mexico border revives fears of renewed serial killing in Ciudad Juarez.... Read more»
Authorities in Sonora have arrested eight people accused of killing two boys and one woman as human sacrifices for Santa Muerte — the saint of death.... Read more»
Florida’s Stand Your Ground law is so bad you have to wonder whether it was written accidentally by idiots or on purpose by morons.... Read more»
A 17-year-old was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for murder and robbery on the Gila River Indian Reservation.... Read more»
Guatemalan President Otto Perez has invigorated the drug legalization debate in Central America, where leaders are under pressure to contain staggering crime rates and battle violent drug cartels.... Read more»2
A federal court Tuesday refused to stand in the way of the executions of two Arizona inmates, clearing the way for the execution of a man Wednesday morning and another next week.... Read more»1
A second suspect has been arrested in connection with the killing of a 21-year-old Tucson man whose remains were found in the desert Jan. 13.... Read more»
Even by Ciudad Juarez’s grim standards, a threat from a Mexican drug cartel to kill an officer a day until the city’s police chief steps down is being seen as an unusually terrifying escalation in the violence.... Read more»
A graphic breaks down Mexico’s drug war by the numbers — the victims, the weapons, the drugs and who controls them — and offers new insight into the dangerous, multi-billion-dollar industry of the drug cartels.... Read more»2
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