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  • Jonathan Turley Spoke Out Against Swatting, and Then He Got Swatted

    12/29/2023 4:58:10 PM PST · by CFW · 44 replies
    Red State ^ | 12/29/23 | Bonchie
    There is a full-scale war of intimidation being waged by the far-left, and it has targeted yet another prominent figure on the right. Legal analyst Jonathan Turley was swatted on Friday according to Alan Henney, who reports on various crimes and police responses around Washington, D.C. That follows the swatting of three Republican lawmakers since Christmas. Specifically, Sen. Rick Scott, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Rep. Brandon Williams all reported incidents. Jonathan Turley then spoke out against the trend, noting that a lack of prosecutions is leading to an increased number of swatting calls because there is no deterrent.
  • Marjorie Taylor Greene's daughters swatted

    12/28/2023 12:21:48 PM PST · by CFW · 68 replies
    The Post Millennial ^ | 12/28/23 | Hannah Nightingale
    On Thursday, Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene said the houses of her two daughters were swatted, coming just days after Greene’s house herself was hit. "Both my daughters' houses just got swatted today," Greene wrote on Twitter. "Big thanks to the police who responded! We appreciate you and support you! Whoever is doing this, you are going to get caught and it won’t be funny to you anymore."
  • Utah bill could allow executions of human traffickers

    02/02/2016 1:34:04 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 12 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Feb. 2, 2016 4:14 PM EST | Michelle L. Price
    A proposal allowing Utah to execute someone convicted of human trafficking even if the criminal didn't actually kill the person would be unjust, costly and likely unconstitutional, opponents of the death penalty argued Tuesday. The bill from Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, would make human trafficking a capital crime in Utah if the victim dies. Under current state law, someone convicted of trafficking that results in a victim's death faces five years to life in prison. Ray said trafficking is a terrible crime, and the state has to do something to try and deter it. [...] The American Civil Liberties Union...
  • The Obama Administration has entered into direct, secret talks with senior Afghan Taliban leaders

    02/19/2011 9:12:46 AM PST · by library user · 54 replies
    The New Yorker | Feb. 28, 2011 | by Steve Coll
    Per FR policy, I can only link to this New Yorker article. FULL STORYCheck out the third paragraph.
  • Connecticut massacre killer faces execution

    10/05/2010 1:16:14 PM PDT · by Niuhuru · 20 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 5th October 2010 | David Gardner
    A crack addict was found guilty today of carrying out a nightmare home invasion that lead to the brutal deaths of a mother and her two young daughters. Steven Hayes was convicted of six capital crimes, all of which are punishable by death. The 47-year-old career criminal was found guilty of 16 of 17 charges, including the murder of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters Hayley, seventeen, and Michaela, eleven.
  • Anti-death penalty movement wooing conservatives

    01/18/2010 3:55:31 PM PST · by DogByte6RER · 34 replies · 1,146+ views
    AP ^ | Mon Jan 18, 6:36 am ET | BRETT BARROUQUERE
    Anti-death penalty movement wooing conservatives LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Roy Brown seems like a rarity — a conservative who's against the death penalty. But to Brown, a state senator and the 2008 Republican nominee for governor of Montana, the philosophy aligns perfectly with conservative ideology. He's one of the more high-profile figures reaching out to other social and fiscal conservatives, hoping to create a bipartisan movement against capital punishment. "I believe that life is precious from the womb to a natural death," Brown said. The Roman Catholic church has long been an organized and vocal critic of the death penalty, but...
  • Federal officials try to block Texas execution to allow world court review of case

    07/28/2008 11:47:22 AM PDT · by Texican72 · 78 replies · 161+ views
    The Dallas Morning News ^ | July 28, 2008 | DIANE JENNINGS
    Fourteen years and numerous judicial reviews have passed since José Medellin was sentenced to die after confessing to the brutal gang rape and murder of two teenage girls in Houston. That's long enough, state officials say. It's time to carry out the sentence. But defense attorneys, and an unusual coalition of federal officials, including no less than the attorney general and secretary of state, say if his Aug. 5 execution is not stayed, so Mr. Medellin's case can be reviewed one more time at the behest of the International Court of Justice, Texas will be rushing to judgment and endangering...
  • Life and death and Samuel Alito

    11/27/2005 7:27:52 PM PST · by RWR8189 · 5 replies · 516+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | November 27, 2005 | Goodwin Liu
    ALTHOUGH abortion rights have dominated the debate over the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court, there is another issue implicating the "culture of life" that has garnered fewer headlines: capital punishment. The impending executions of three men in California, including the lethal injection of reformed ex-gang leader Stanley Tookie Williams scheduled for Dec. 13, are a sober reminder of the irrevocable stakes in this area of law. Capital cases make up a substantial portion of the Supreme Court's docket each year. From 2000 to 2005, the court decided only three cases involving abortion but more...
  • DA: Peterson Likely to Face Death Penalty

    04/21/2003 10:45:23 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 9 replies · 284+ views
    Yahoo! News ^ | 4/21/03 | Jim Wasserman - AP
    <p>MODESTO, Calif. - When Scott Peterson (news - web sites) is arraigned on two charges of murdering his pregnant wife and unborn child Monday afternoon, authorities will most likely seek the death penalty, Stanislaus County District Attorney James Brazelton said.</p> <p>"It's hard for me to realistically believe it is anything but a death penalty case at this time," Brazelton told ABC News.</p> <p>Arrested because detectives feared he might try to flee the country, a jailed Peterson waited quietly and courteously for his arraignment.</p>
  • N.C. man executed for '92 killing

    11/12/2004 2:34:49 PM PST · by ConservativeStatement · 26 replies · 782+ views
    The News Tribune ^ | November 12, 2004 | By EMERY P. DALESIO
    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A man whose death sentence for impulsively killing a woman during a 1992 robbery was opposed even by some capital punishment supporters was executed by injection early Friday. Frank Chandler, 32, was put to death at Central Prison for killing 90-year-old Doris Poore, who surprised him when he broke into her house on a misguided search for drugs. He lay on a gurney, raising his head several times to look at the gathered witnesses, then reclined and closed his eyes. When the injection was administered, he gave two sharp breaths, then stopped breathing.
  • Killer Gets Death in Miami Herald Employee's Slaying

    04/12/2003 7:49:11 PM PDT · by Pharmboy · 9 replies · 187+ views
    AP ^ | Apr 12, 2003 | The Associated Press
    KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - A drifter who strangled a Miami Herald employee and dumped her body in the Florida Keys has been sentenced to death. Michael Anthony Tanzi, 26, was sentenced Friday by Monroe Circuit Judge Richard Payne. A jury recommended the death penalty in February. In April 2000, Tanzi confessed to strangling Janet Acosta, a 49-year-old Herald production supervisor. Tanzi pleaded guilty in January to first-degree murder, carjacking, kidnapping and robbery charges without a plea bargain. "You have not only forfeited your right to live among us, you have forfeited your right to live," Payne said as...