VA Senate Passes Death Penalty Bill: A bill passed Monday in the Virginia Senate allows for use of the electric chair in executions when lethal-injection drugs are not available. Laura Vozzella and Justin Jouvenal of the Washington Post report that although the electric chair is already an option that condemned Virginia inmates can choose over lethal injection, the new measure would make it the default execution method if lethal-injection drugs cannot be obtained. The House of Delegates initially approved the legislation in February, but is set to vote on it again after the Senate amended it to require the director of the Department of Corrections make "substantial efforts" to obtain lethal-injection drugs before using the electric chair. If the House accepts the Senate version, the legislation will go to Gov. Terry McAuliffe. There are currently seven people on death row in Virginia but only one scheduled execution, on April 13.
Chicago Man Charged in Boy's Death: A Chicago gang member is facing a first-degree murder charge in last year's shooting death of a nine-year-old boy, who was targeted and killed due to his father's gang ties. Don Babwin of the AP reports that 22-year-old Dwight Boone-Doty, 27-year-old Corey Morgan and a third man who is still at large lured fourth-grader Tyshawn Lee into an alley last November by promising him a juice box and then shot him fatally in the head, allegedly as retaliation stemming from gang rivalries. Boone-Doty, who was paroled last August after serving two years on a five-year sentence in a drug case, is also charged with the October murder of a 19-year-old girl and attempted murder and aggravated battery of a 20-year-old rival gang member.
Suspect Sought in KS Quadruple Murder: A fugitive suspect believed to be responsible for a quadruple murder Monday night in Kansas is now also being sought in the Tuesday shooting death of a fifth person. Fox News reports that 36-year-old Pablo Serrano-Vitorino was the neighbor of the four men shot and killed at a Kansas City, Kan., home on Monday and his pickup truck was found abandoned in Missouri on Tuesday near a home of a 49-year-old man who was shot to death. Serrano-Vitorino was last jailed in June 2015 for domestic battery.
WV Legalizes Concealed Carry without Permit: In a bipartisan effort to enact permitless gun carry, the West Virginia legislature on Saturday overturned the veto of Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, which will, beginning in June, allow anyone over the age of 21 who can legally possess a firearm to carry it concealed on their person without having to obtain a permit. Stephen Gutowski of the Free Beacon reports that the law also creates a provisional permitting process for people between the ages of 18 and 20 who were previously excluded from the permitting process altogether. West Virginia is now the eighth state in the U.S. to adopt the "constitutional carry" permitless structure; most states, at a total of 34, adhere to the "shall-issue" structure, where applicants are issued a permit if they pass a background check and whatever training and identification requirements are set by the state, while far less, just eight states, follow the the most restrictive "may-issue" structure, which sometimes denies permits even if all requirements set out by the state are met.
Chicago Man Charged in Boy's Death: A Chicago gang member is facing a first-degree murder charge in last year's shooting death of a nine-year-old boy, who was targeted and killed due to his father's gang ties. Don Babwin of the AP reports that 22-year-old Dwight Boone-Doty, 27-year-old Corey Morgan and a third man who is still at large lured fourth-grader Tyshawn Lee into an alley last November by promising him a juice box and then shot him fatally in the head, allegedly as retaliation stemming from gang rivalries. Boone-Doty, who was paroled last August after serving two years on a five-year sentence in a drug case, is also charged with the October murder of a 19-year-old girl and attempted murder and aggravated battery of a 20-year-old rival gang member.
Suspect Sought in KS Quadruple Murder: A fugitive suspect believed to be responsible for a quadruple murder Monday night in Kansas is now also being sought in the Tuesday shooting death of a fifth person. Fox News reports that 36-year-old Pablo Serrano-Vitorino was the neighbor of the four men shot and killed at a Kansas City, Kan., home on Monday and his pickup truck was found abandoned in Missouri on Tuesday near a home of a 49-year-old man who was shot to death. Serrano-Vitorino was last jailed in June 2015 for domestic battery.
WV Legalizes Concealed Carry without Permit: In a bipartisan effort to enact permitless gun carry, the West Virginia legislature on Saturday overturned the veto of Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, which will, beginning in June, allow anyone over the age of 21 who can legally possess a firearm to carry it concealed on their person without having to obtain a permit. Stephen Gutowski of the Free Beacon reports that the law also creates a provisional permitting process for people between the ages of 18 and 20 who were previously excluded from the permitting process altogether. West Virginia is now the eighth state in the U.S. to adopt the "constitutional carry" permitless structure; most states, at a total of 34, adhere to the "shall-issue" structure, where applicants are issued a permit if they pass a background check and whatever training and identification requirements are set by the state, while far less, just eight states, follow the the most restrictive "may-issue" structure, which sometimes denies permits even if all requirements set out by the state are met.
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