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At around 5 p.m. on June 9, 2013, 19-year-old Maureen Kelly took off all her clothes and walked away from her campsite in Washington's remote Gifford Pinchot National Forest. It was the last anyone ever saw her. When she hadn't returned by midnight, her fellow campers called the police, who began the search the following day. They quickly discovered a pair of bare footprints leading from the campsite down to a creek and up the other side. But the prints ended at a paved forest service road and the trail went cold. And despite days of searching with trained K9 units, they never found any other trace of her and the case remains unsolved to this day.

April 24, 1959
Richmond, Virginia
Willis Dameron Boyd (23, pictured) is executed for the murder of Redford Ranson (51) who had replaced Boyd’s position after Boyd was fired

Ranson had been hired to replace Boyd as a night shift service station attendant. On June 19, 1958, Boyd visited the service station where he had previously worked and robbed the store of $90 (about $920 today). He then used an electrical cord from a radio to bind Ranson’s hands and forced him into a car to drive him to a remote location. Once near a wooded area, Boyd pulled Ranson from the car, beat him with a hammer, stabbed him several times in the throat and stomach, and shot him with a rifle.

Ranson’s body was found by three teens about 65 feet (20 meters) from the highway. His skull had been fractured, he had multiple stab wounds including a “deep wound” to his stomach, and had been shot with a .22 caliber rifle. The gunshot entered Ranson’s neck, split his Adam’s apple, traveled down his windpipe and into his right lung, fractured his fifth rib and embedded in the sixth. The bludgeoning wounds, stab wounds, and gunshot wound could have each been fatal on their own.

Within days of the body’s discovery, Boyd and an apparent accomplice — 15-year-old Gordon Gunn — were arrested. The murder had been witnessed by Gunn who was initially charged with murder but later became a material witness against Boyd. Boyd confessed to the crime and absolved Gunn of any guilt, stating the teen had only been inside the car during the murder and had not participated in any capacity.

While Boyd stated his desire to be executed at the time of his arrest, he changed his mind by the time he was taken to trial and entered a plea of not guilty. He claimed to have killed Ranson because he “kept coming at” him. “He was standing up and trying to get hold of me,” Boyd testified. He attempted to force Ranson to kneel, then hit the man with a hammer to force him to the ground. Boyd retrieved the rifle from the car and returned to find Ranson still standing. “When I came back he lunged at me again, and I fired.” When asked if anything had prevented him from running away, Body responded, “Just my way of thinking was messed up.” Boyd also informed the court he “told [the police] things that would make it harder on me” to explain why he had confessed to murdering Ranson rather than killing him in self defense, ostensibly to achieve his goal of being executed.

The jury convicted Boyd of murder after 2 hours and 45 minutes of deliberation. When his death sentence was read, Boyd responded, “That’s what I wanted.” He was executed in the state’s electric chair on April 24, 1959, 10 months after Ranson’s murder. Had Boyd escaped the death penalty for Ranson’s murder, he would have faced a possible death sentence for the s*xual assault of a 12-year-old girl.

Sources:
Hearn, Daniel Allen. Legal Executions in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia: A Comprehensive Registry, 1866–1962. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2015
“Murderer Of Attendant Electrocuted.” Covington [Virginia] Virginian. April 24, 1959. 9:2
Crockford, Hamilton. “Jury Finds Boyd Guilty In Slaying.” Richmond [Virginia] Times-Dispatch. September 13, 1958. 1:2 (image source, via Newspapers.com)
Shires, Carl. “Hearing Due July 11 In Goochland Murder.” The Richmond [Virginia] News Leader. June 25, 1958. 1:6
Solomon, Loyall. “Man Is Found Bound, Stabbed in Goochland.” Richmond [Virginia] Times-Dispatch. June 22, 1958. 1:3

Ajay Kumar Rathee v. Seema Rathee

The Bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and MM Sundresh held the same while dealing with a case where a couple got married and had a daughter. Soon thereafter, the wife went to her parental house along with the daughter and resided there.

The husband filed a plea for restitution of conjugal rights, which was dismissed. He subsequently filed a plea seeking dissolution of marriage before the district judge. The plea was allowed on the ground of desertion and thereafter challenged before the Punjab & Haryana High Court by the wife. The High Court set aside the lower court order, prompting the husband to approach the Supreme Court in appeal.

With the divorce plea pending and attempts of reconciliation being made before the Supreme Court Mediation Centre, the Bench had earlier directed the father to pay the education expenses of the 20-year-old daughter. The Bench was informed on Tuesday that mediation between the parties had failed.

After the counsel for the parties agreed to make another attempt at mediation, the Court directed for the matter to be placed again before the Supreme Court Mediation Centre. The mediator has now been directed to make arrangements for exclusive interaction between the father and the daughter.

A bench of Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli refused bail to one Pradeep, who allegedly tortured his wife by forcibly committing unnatural s*x with her after her family failed to meet his dowry demands.

The Supreme Court said forcible unnatural s*x with wife by husband is a heinous offence, especially as it had led her to die by su***de, and refused bail to the man who has been in custody for more than two years on charges of dowry harassment, domestic violence and r**e. An FIR was lodged in 2019 by the victim’s brother at Bhiwani Sadar police station in Haryana’s Bhiwani district, under Sections 148, 149, 323, 377 and 306 of the IPC.

The CJI-led bench said Sec 377 (r**e) is a very serious offence and that the accused husband did not deserve leniency at the stage of probe. “We do not know what the police are doing. You started demanding dowry. When her family could not meet those demands, you started harassing her. You circulated her private pictures and videos on social media and tried to blackmail her. Above all, you allegedly had forcible unnatural s*x with her leading to her su***de. You deserve no leniency as this is a heinous crime.”

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A committee constituted by the Bar Council of India has drafted the "The Advocates (Protection) Bill, 2021."

No suit is to be instituted against a lawyer who has been working in good faith. Communications between the advocates and their clients must be respected; confidentiality must be protected.

A seven-member committee had been constituted to frame the bill keeping in mind the problem and adversities faced by advocates and their families.