FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. — Just two days before a sheriff’s deputy in Florida shot him dead, U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson called home to find out what his 10-year-old sister wanted for her birthday. “He was trying to give me everything that I never could get for myself,” his mother, Chantemekki Fortson, said Thursday at a news …
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The sheriff’s deputy reached a house at the end of the narrow Northern California dirt road and decided getting help from more deputies would be a good idea. Gavin Newsom has put a moratorium on executions but Santa Cruz County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosell said Friday he hadn’t yet decided whether he would seek the death …
