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Aftermath of an insanity verdict
Shackled to a hospital bed with a self-inflicted neck wound, Marci Webber described to the police visions of demons and skeletons, but wasn't sure what had happened to her 4-year-old daughter. As the officers — shaken by the crime scene in her...
Tags: Court Preliminary, Chemical Industry, Psychiatrists, Health and Safety at School, Prosecution
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Arizona law bans destroying guns purchased in buyback programs
This post has been corrected. See the note below.TUCSON — City- or county-sponsored gun buybacks — often used in larger cities to entice people to give up their handguns — have become effectively pointless in Arizona with legislation signed by Gov. Jan Brewer. The bill prohibits...Tags: Safeway Inc., Gabrielle Giffords, Firearms, National Rifle Association of America, Crime, Law and Justice
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Shame on the Senate; send 'em all home
Let me begin this column with an apology. Once a week, I pick an important issue and offer my reasoned analysis, based on the facts, of what it all means and how we should react. But there are times when the intellect fails and the heart and gut take...Tags: Orrin Hatch, Heidi Heitkamp, Government, Mark Kirk, Politics
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The God Squad: Can we forgive insane killers?
Q: In my local newspaper today, there were articles about Jared Loughner, who shot and killed six people and wounded 12 more in Arizona in 2011, and James Holmes, who is linked to the fatal shooting of 12 people and wounding of an additional 58 in a...Tags: Human Interest, Judges, Behavioral Conditions, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Unrepentant murderers stir our notions of moral justice
God SquadQ: In my local newspaper today, there were articles about Jared Loughner, who shot and killed 6 people and wounded 12 more in Arizona in 2011, and James Holmes, who shot and killed 12 people and wounded another 58 in a Colorado movie theater last year....Tags: Human Interest, Judges, Behavioral Conditions, Schizophrenia, Justice System
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Few states find narrow route to gun control laws
From Colorado to Connecticut, a handful of very different states have advanced new gun control laws over opposition that has made such legislation a struggle nationally and a non-starter in most legislatures. How did they do it? Culture and...
Tags: Joe Biden, Government, Politics, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice
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The illusory value of the death penalty
After deciding to pursue the execution of the man charged with fatally shooting 12 people in a Colorado movie theater last summer, the prosecutor declared that "for James Egan Holmes, justice is death." By that definition, he might have added, justice...
Tags: University of Texas at Austin, Health and Safety at School, Government, Prosecution, Judges
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Oklahoma urges 7,000 dental patients to get hepatitis, HIV tests
As many as 7,000 dental patients in Oklahoma are being urged to take blood tests for hepatitis or the virus that causes AIDS after health officials said they discovered that instruments in a local practice were not properly cleaned. The warning of...
Tags: Hepatitis C , HIV, AIDS, Viral Diseases and Infections, Health
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Seeking death for Holmes
I have never been an advocate for the insanity plea, which is certainly what James Holmes' lawyers will put forth in his upcoming death penalty case. If there is one iota of planning involved, then the insanity defense holds no water, in my view. At...Tags: Punishment, James Holmes
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Fugitive on 'most wanted' list returns to U.S. for prosecution
A fugitive on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list is back in the U.S. facing first-degree murder charges after Salvadoran journalists intrigued by his notoriety tracked him down. His hide-out? The family home, about 200 yards from a police station, the...
Tags: FBI, Trials, Punishment, Justice System, El Salvador
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Officer stopped Jared Loughner hours before Tuscon shooting rampage
TUCSON -- Just hours before his arrest for shooting six people to death and wounding 13 others, Jared Lee Loughner had another brush with the law, breaking down and weeping in front of an officer who pulled him over. Among the information contained in...
Tags: Tuscon Shooting (2011), Judges, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Shootings
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Newtown massacre: Warrants detail Adam Lanza's world of weapons
Adam Lanza, the gunman who attacked a Connecticut elementary school, killing 20 children and six adults, had an arsenal of guns, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition and even samurai swords, knives and a bayonet, according to search warrants released on...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Asperger Syndrome, Gaming, Firearms, Politics
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