"Medicalizing mass murder": In the WaPo, columnist and psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer punctures the notion that Nidal Hasan is a victim of secondary PTSD. Krauthammer does this by noting that "[m]edicalizing mass murder not only exonerates. It turns the murderer into a victim, indeed a sympathetic one." The portrayal of Hasan as a possible victim, which has been advanced over the past week by the major media, may become the narrative for his defense now that he is facing trial by a military court and a possible death sentence as reported by WSJ writers Yochi J. Dreazen, Peter Spiegel and Evan Perez.
9/11 Defendants to be Tried in NY: AP writer Devlin Barrett reports that five Guantanamo Bay detainees, accused of conspiring in the 2001 terrorist attack on the U.S., will be tried in New York federal court. Among the defendants will be Kahlid Sheikh Mohammed, who has identified himself as the mastermind of the attack. Attorney General Holder also announced that five other detainees accused of attacks on the military will be tried before a military commission. The decision to try the 9/11 defendants in civilian court is reported to be a key step in the President's plan to close Gitmo. It confirms that the administration intends to address the attack, which left nearly 3,000 dead, as a criminal act. The sister of the airline pilot whose plane was hijacked and flown into the Pentagon responded to the announcement saying "We have a president who doesn't know we're at war."
Governor Schwarzenegger - CA can comply with inmate release order: AP writer Don Thompson reports that the Schwarzenegger administration has announced that California could comply with a federal judicial panel's August order to release over 40,000 prison inmates, if the judges choose to bypass the state legislature and pre-empt existing laws. The administration's revised inmate release plan, released Thursday, presented the panel with options available to comply with their earlier order. According to the Governor's Corrections Secretary "If the Legislature didn't make these changes, the court under its own powers could either waive state law...or order the state not to accept certain inmates." The Secretary noted that California plans to appeal the release order to the Supreme Court.
Ohio Announces Plans to Switch to Single Lethal Injection Drug: AP writer Julie Carr Smyth reports that Ohio has become the first state to adopt a single drug procedure for lethal injections. This method has never been tested on United States inmates. In papers filed today, the state informed the U.S. District Court that it has decided to switch from a three-drug cocktail to a single injection of thiopental sodium into a vein. The state will also have a separate two-drug muscle injection available as a backup. The idea for a single drug lethal injection procedure has been used in euthanizing animals and debated by states for some time, but Ohio is the first to drop the three-drug approach in favor of one dose.
9/11 Defendants to be Tried in NY: AP writer Devlin Barrett reports that five Guantanamo Bay detainees, accused of conspiring in the 2001 terrorist attack on the U.S., will be tried in New York federal court. Among the defendants will be Kahlid Sheikh Mohammed, who has identified himself as the mastermind of the attack. Attorney General Holder also announced that five other detainees accused of attacks on the military will be tried before a military commission. The decision to try the 9/11 defendants in civilian court is reported to be a key step in the President's plan to close Gitmo. It confirms that the administration intends to address the attack, which left nearly 3,000 dead, as a criminal act. The sister of the airline pilot whose plane was hijacked and flown into the Pentagon responded to the announcement saying "We have a president who doesn't know we're at war."
Governor Schwarzenegger - CA can comply with inmate release order: AP writer Don Thompson reports that the Schwarzenegger administration has announced that California could comply with a federal judicial panel's August order to release over 40,000 prison inmates, if the judges choose to bypass the state legislature and pre-empt existing laws. The administration's revised inmate release plan, released Thursday, presented the panel with options available to comply with their earlier order. According to the Governor's Corrections Secretary "If the Legislature didn't make these changes, the court under its own powers could either waive state law...or order the state not to accept certain inmates." The Secretary noted that California plans to appeal the release order to the Supreme Court.
Ohio Announces Plans to Switch to Single Lethal Injection Drug: AP writer Julie Carr Smyth reports that Ohio has become the first state to adopt a single drug procedure for lethal injections. This method has never been tested on United States inmates. In papers filed today, the state informed the U.S. District Court that it has decided to switch from a three-drug cocktail to a single injection of thiopental sodium into a vein. The state will also have a separate two-drug muscle injection available as a backup. The idea for a single drug lethal injection procedure has been used in euthanizing animals and debated by states for some time, but Ohio is the first to drop the three-drug approach in favor of one dose.
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