High Court Turns Away CA Death Penalty Challenge: The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to California's death penalty system after an Orange County murderer filed an appeal arguing that waiting decades on death row results in "psychologically inhumane stress." David G. Savage of the LA Times reports that Richard Boyer was condemned to death in 1984 for the robbery and murder of an elderly Fullerton couple. That conviction was later overturned due to a police error, but he was tried, convicted and sentenced to death again in 1992. Justice Stephen Breyer filed a two-page dissent Monday arguing that Boyer's appeal should have been heard. California's death row is that largest in the nation with 743 inmates awaiting execution, but it has carried out just 13 in 40 years. None have been carried out for the last ten years because of the lack of a valid execution protocol, but a new one is in the process of being established due to litigation brought by CJLF on behalf of murder victims' families.
Five Seattle Cops Hurt as Protest Turns Violent: Five Seattle police officers were injured Sunday after an anti-capitalist May Day protest erupted in violence. Fox News reports that demonstrators pelted officer with rocks, flares, bricks and Molotov cocktails, and also vandalized windows, buildings and parked cars. One officer suffered a head laceration after being struck by a rock, another was injured, but not burned, by a Molotov cocktail and a third was bitten. The other two officers' injuries were not detailed by the department. The protests began peacefully, with demonstrators advocating for workers and immigrants, calling for better wages, an end to deportations and support for the Obama administration's plan to give work permits to illegal immigrants who have American children. The ensuing violence resulted in nine arrests.
Three Bills Address Illegal Entry into the US: Seven House Republicans, headed by Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, have proposed three pieces of legislation aimed at discouraging people from entering the country illegally. Pete Kasperowicz of the Washington Examiner reports that one of the bills, the Interior Immigration Enforcement Act, states that "any alien who is age 18 and older" and enters the country "shall be fined ... or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both." A second bill, the Zero Tolerance for Illegal Entry Act, requires all illegal immigrants to be prosecuted to the fullest extend of the law. The third bill, the Criminal Alien Detention and Removal Act, requires illegal immigrants convicted of a felony to be automatically deported by U.S. Marshals after their sentence is served.
Five Seattle Cops Hurt as Protest Turns Violent: Five Seattle police officers were injured Sunday after an anti-capitalist May Day protest erupted in violence. Fox News reports that demonstrators pelted officer with rocks, flares, bricks and Molotov cocktails, and also vandalized windows, buildings and parked cars. One officer suffered a head laceration after being struck by a rock, another was injured, but not burned, by a Molotov cocktail and a third was bitten. The other two officers' injuries were not detailed by the department. The protests began peacefully, with demonstrators advocating for workers and immigrants, calling for better wages, an end to deportations and support for the Obama administration's plan to give work permits to illegal immigrants who have American children. The ensuing violence resulted in nine arrests.
Three Bills Address Illegal Entry into the US: Seven House Republicans, headed by Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, have proposed three pieces of legislation aimed at discouraging people from entering the country illegally. Pete Kasperowicz of the Washington Examiner reports that one of the bills, the Interior Immigration Enforcement Act, states that "any alien who is age 18 and older" and enters the country "shall be fined ... or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both." A second bill, the Zero Tolerance for Illegal Entry Act, requires all illegal immigrants to be prosecuted to the fullest extend of the law. The third bill, the Criminal Alien Detention and Removal Act, requires illegal immigrants convicted of a felony to be automatically deported by U.S. Marshals after their sentence is served.
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