Case Type - Police shootings

Carol Lynn Kingsley, a 33-year-old mother,  was shot and killed by police after she allegedly slashed three officers in her home. She had a history of mental illness, yet attempts to provide her treatment had failed, right up until the hours before the shooting, according to police, court records, and interviews with friends and neighbors.

Case Type - Detention and death row

The most-prolific death penalty state in the US executed its 500th inmate in 2013 as protesters gathered outside the penitentiary walls to rally against a grim landmark in America’s capital punishment history.

Case Type - Detention and death row

A lawyer has accused the Trump administration of “unnecessary and vicious use of authoritarian power” after a woman on death row was executed, the first federal execution of a woman in almost seven decades. Lisa Montgomery, 52, was pronounced dead after receiving a lethal injection.

Case Type - Miscarraiges

Marissa Alexander was expected to finally leave jail after what many decried as a wrongful conviction and commitment. On 1 August 2010, Alexander fired what she has called a warning shot, to protect herself against her abusive husband, nine days after she had given birth to a premature daughter.

Case Type - Miscarraiges

A documentary about the persecuted Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh shows her courage and her symbolic importance to the resistance movement. This clandestinely shot documentary about Iranian human-rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh reveals what superheroism looks like in the real world.

Case Type - Police killings

An Egyptian court sentenced a police officer to 15 years in prison for the killing of a protester during a peaceful demonstration in Cairo. Cairo’s criminal court found 24-year-old police lieutenant Yassin Hatem Salahedeen guilty of manslaughter of 32-year-old activist Shaimaa el-Sabbagh.

Case Type - Police and restraint

The family of an 18-year-old black woman who died in police custody in Alabama are demanding to see video footage taken inside the jail cell where she was held for several hours before she was discovered lifeless.

Case Type - Police and restraint

Family members of a woman who authorities say committed suicide in a Los Angeles jail are raising questions about her death, saying they learned the 36-year-old mother had died only after she didn’t appear in court days later.

Case Type - Shootings, race and society

Ahmaud "Quez" Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was chased and fatally shot while jogging in Glynn County, Georgia. Three white residents, including a father and son, told police they thought Arbery was a suspect in a series of break-ins. They were charged with felony murder and aggravated assault after cellphone footage showing the deadly struggle leaked online.

Case Type - Police shootings

Oakland is again in uproar over a police shooting of an African-American man. In 2007, it was Gary King Jr. In 2009, it was Oscar Grant. In 2010, it was Derrick Jones. In 2011, it was Raheim Brown. This year, it’s Alan Dwayne Blueford.

Case Type - Police and restraint

A wrongful death lawsuit was filed against the Salt Lake City Police Department by the family of a man who died while in police custody. Allen Keith Nelson, 44, died while in the process of being arrested.

Case Type - Custody deaths

The death of a 3-year-old Fort Worth boy in state custody is being investigated as a murder, and his mother said she warned child welfare workers that he was being physically abused. Amari Boone, who was in the custody of court-appointed caregivers, was taken to Cook Children’s Medical Center with severe head trauma, police said.

Case Type - Police shootings

Antonio Zambrano-Montes, was killed after police fired on him 17 times for throwing rocks at passing cars. Zambrano, 35, who reportedly had exhibited erratic behavior in the past, was unarmed.

Case Type - Police shootings

Brandon Bethea was 24-years-old when Harnett County detention officers followed him into a padded cell and shot him in the chest with a taser. Bethea fell to the ground, still in leg shackles, as the officer pulled the trigger twice more jolting him with electricity.

Case Type - Police shootings

A Florida sheriff asked state police to open a criminal investigation after a 28-year-old unarmed black man in a stolen car was shot and critically wounded by a white officer. Witnesses report that the man, who has been named as Cedric Bartee, had his hands up when he was shot.

Case Type - Miscarraiges

A Denver, Colorado, man has spent 28 years in prison based on a dream—and it wasn’t his. Now he could soon be free. In 1989, Clarence Moses-EL, who is African-American, was sentenced to 48 years in prison after a woman said she dreamed he was the man who raped and beat her in the dark.

Case Type - Police and restraint

Five years to the day after 22-year-old Derek Williams died in the custody of Milwaukee police, attorneys representing his three children have filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and the officers involved. Williams died after begging for his life and telling officers he couldn't breathe while handcuffed in the back of a squad car in the early morning hours of July 6, 2011.

Case Type - Police shootings

A U.S. marshal shot an unarmed man in the back after raiding his home for suspicion of kidnapping, though the man's alleged victim, his girlfriend, "answered the door" and "appeared fine, with her children happily outside playing," the wounded man claims in court.

Case Type - Police shootings

Isaiah Green was shot to death by police in his mother's garage. The night Isaiah was fatally shot by police, he had been celebrating the 21st birthday of one of his closest friends with a group of high school classmates.

Case Type - Police shootings

The family of a Georgia man, who was fatally shot by police are refuting the officers' account, saying the killing was unjust. Police say Jack Lamar Roberson, a 43-year-old father of two, allegedly advanced toward them with two items he was using as weapons. However, Roberson's family said he was in need of help and wasn't threatening in any way.

Case Type - Police shootings

A teenage boy has been shot and killed by police after a juvenile hearing at an Ohio court during an altercation, local officials said. Joseph Haynes, 16, was appearing for a hearing about a firearms charge against him at the Franklin County court in Columbus on when a deputy sheriff struck him with a bullet in a hallway.

Case Type - Shootings, race and society

Outrage over the death of an African-American security guard has sparked discussions around the perils of gun ownership. Twenty-six-year-old Jemel Roberson, an African-American security guard, was attempting to defuse an escalation at Manny’s Blue Room Bar.

Case Type - Police shootings

14-year-old boy João Pedro Matos Pinto was shot dead by Brazilian police. He was playing with a cousin in his uncle’s house in São Gonçalo, in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, when Civil and Military police supposedly on the heels of drug dealers shot him dead.

Case Type - Police shootings

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado filed a suit in the federal district court against three Colorado State Patrol officers – and two training supervisors – in the wrongful death of an unarmed Grand Junction man who was shot at point-blank range and killed.

Case Type - Police shootings

Police in Ottawa, Kansas shot and killed Joseph Jennings an unarmed teen. Ottawa police were called to Orscheln Farm and Home on a report of a person reportedly armed with a gun. However, the family of deceased 18-year-old said there was no gun. Ottawa Police had not confirmed that Jennings was armed either.

Case Type - Police and restraint

The family of a Florida man killed by a police cruiser during a pursuit released shocking dash cam footage of the incident described by their attorney as an 'execution in a vegetable garden.' Marlon Brown died under the car driven by DeLand officer James Harris, who was chasing Brown over a seat-belt violation.

Case Type - Police killings

The death of a 22-year-old mentally ill man in an isolation cell in Georgia has been ruled a homicide. Mathew Ajibade was handcuffed to a restraint chair on New Year's Day after he allegedly hit his girlfriend and broke a deputy's nose while in the midst of a bipolar episode. His family alleges police used a Taser on Ajibade while he was restrained in the chair, and then left him there unattended.

Case Type - Police and restraint

The firing of multiple detention officers involved in the in-custody death of a Black man is seen as “a good first step,” but they were neither charged nor arrested for their roles at the Collin County jail in McKinney, Texas. Seven jail cops lost their jobs nearly two weeks after Marvin Scott III died on their watch at the detention center.

Case Type - Police and neglect

A 62-year-old man held on aggravated assault charges apparently hanged himself t a Far South Side police lockup. Police said the man – identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner's office as 62-year-old Melvin C. Woods Jr. – was taken into custody shortly after midnight on aggravated assault charges.

Case Type - Miscarraiges

A murder defendant freed after spending nearly 25 years on death row in a botched prosecution was freed ahead of a family reunion. Michael Keenan was freed in 2012 after a judge dismissed the murder charge against him in the 1988 throat-slashing death of a man found dead in a brook in a Cleveland park.

Case Type - Police and restraint

Nancy Velazquez wants to know why the father of her children is dead. The last time she saw Michael Mercado, the 37-year-old man was struggling with police officers outside their apartment on Oxford Street. Three hours later, she was standing in a waiting room at University Hospital, listening to someone say Mercado was dead.