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Police officers found justified in Erik Scott shooting; family plans lawsuit

originally published by: Las Vegas Sun
28th September 2010

The coroner’s inquest that on Tuesday found the Metro Police shooting death of Erik Scott justified “failed miserably,” Scott’s father said. Bill Scott told reporters that the next step for the family would be to file a lawsuit in federal court “so finally we all will have the truth.”

The family plans to file a civil rights lawsuit alleging the officers used excessive force. Defendants will be Metro, Clark County, the sheriff’s office and Costco, where the July 10 shooting took place in Summerlin. Ross Goodman, the Scott family’s attorney, said the lawsuit could be filed as early as two weeks from now.

Goodman and Bill Scott talked to reporters outside the Regional Justice Center about 20 minutes after a seven-member Clark County coroner’s inquest jury ruled the death of Erik Scott as a justifiable homicide.

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Death sentence for convicted Briton in flawed capital trial

published by: Pattaya Daily News
23rd September 2010

Briton Linda Carty, a former primary school teacher and an undercover drug enforcer awaits execution for the death of a young mother in Texas in May 2001 as campaigners argue that she did not receive a fair trial.

Texas, 23rd September 2010: Since the restoration of the death penalty in Texas in 1982, the US state has executed 462 people, three of them women with Linda Carty next in line for the lethal injection in America’s busiest execution chamber.

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Teresa Lewis executed

originally published by: BBC News
24th September 2010

A 41-year-old woman who conspired to murder her husband and stepson has been executed in the US state of Virginia. Teresa Lewis was the first woman to be put to death in the US for five years and in Virginia since 1912.

Lewis, who had learning difficulties, used sex and cash to persuade hitmen to kill her family in 2002. The US Supreme Court and Virginia’s governor refused to stop her execution, which took place at 2100 (0100 GMT) at Greensville Correctional Center.