OH Struggles to Find Lethal Injection Drugs: Just over six months ahead of Ohio's first scheduled execution since 2014, and with two dozen other convicted killers scheduled to die over the next three years, the state has not managed to secure a supply of lethal injection drugs. Alan Johnson of the Columbus Dispatch reports that Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction officials have attempted to secure a supply through several avenues, including compounding pharmacies and from overseas sources, but all their efforts have been in vain. The state's biggest hurdle, which affects all states with the death penalty, is resistance from major manufacturers that either stopped making drugs used for lethal injection or refuse to sell them to states for use in executions. Currently, Ohio law only allows lethal injection for executions, and transitioning to an alternative method, which some officials have suggested, would require changing state law. The state's next scheduled execution is on Jan. 12, 2017, when Ronald Phillips is set to die.
SCOUTS Upholds Gun Ban for Domestic Violence: On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the broad reach of a federal law that bans people with a domestic violence conviction from owning firearms. Fox News reports that the high court ruled, in a 6-2 decision, that reckless domestic assaults can be considered misdemeanor crimes to restrict gun ownership. The case involved two Maine men, Stephen Voisine and William Armstrong, who were both found guilty of misdemeanor domestic assaults which prohibited them from possessing firearms. Voisine argued that the law only covers intentional acts of abuse and not those committed in the heat of an argument, while Armstrong argued that the ban violates his second amendment rights. Voisine's argument was rejected and although Armstrong's was not addressed in the ruling, it was questioned during oral argument.
ISIS Targets SF, Las Vegas in New Video: The Islamic State (ISIS) released an ominous video on Sunday showing footage of San Francisco landmarks and the Las Vegas Strip in what appears to be a threat of attack on the two cities. Adelle Nazarian of Breitbart reports that in the video, a man providing English voiceover, who introduces himself as Abu Ismail al-Amriki ("the American"), encourages "attacks in San Francisco in the same vein as the Pulse incident in Orlando." Sunday's video in the third released by the terrorist group that claims responsibility for the Orlando attacks and advocates that others follow the example of the gunman, Omar Mateen.
SCOUTS Upholds Gun Ban for Domestic Violence: On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the broad reach of a federal law that bans people with a domestic violence conviction from owning firearms. Fox News reports that the high court ruled, in a 6-2 decision, that reckless domestic assaults can be considered misdemeanor crimes to restrict gun ownership. The case involved two Maine men, Stephen Voisine and William Armstrong, who were both found guilty of misdemeanor domestic assaults which prohibited them from possessing firearms. Voisine argued that the law only covers intentional acts of abuse and not those committed in the heat of an argument, while Armstrong argued that the ban violates his second amendment rights. Voisine's argument was rejected and although Armstrong's was not addressed in the ruling, it was questioned during oral argument.
ISIS Targets SF, Las Vegas in New Video: The Islamic State (ISIS) released an ominous video on Sunday showing footage of San Francisco landmarks and the Las Vegas Strip in what appears to be a threat of attack on the two cities. Adelle Nazarian of Breitbart reports that in the video, a man providing English voiceover, who introduces himself as Abu Ismail al-Amriki ("the American"), encourages "attacks in San Francisco in the same vein as the Pulse incident in Orlando." Sunday's video in the third released by the terrorist group that claims responsibility for the Orlando attacks and advocates that others follow the example of the gunman, Omar Mateen.
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