During a high school basketball game in Oklahoma, 16-year-old Randy Vitales went into cardiac arrest, prompting Magnus Miller to spring into action. Miller, a lifeguard-trained student, used an automated external defibrillator and performed CPR, ultimately saving Vitales’ life. Vitales was transported to the hospital, where doctors credited the quick response of the coaches and Miller’s training for his survival.
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Mississippi executes Vietnam veteran on death row for nearly 50 years
A Mississippi man, Richard Gerald Jordan, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, the wife of a bank loan officer, in a ransom scheme. At 79, Jordan, a Vietnam veteran with PTSD, had spent nearly five decades on death row, with the U.S. Supreme Court denying his final appeals and Mississippi's governor denying clemency. Explain It To Me Like I'm 5: A 79-year-old man named Richard Jordan was...
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