Deputy is 4th CA Officer Slain in 2 Weeks: A California deputy was fatally shot Wednesday while responding to a disturbance call, marking the fourth time in two weeks that a law enforcement officer was killed in the line of duty in the state. The AP reports that Modoc County sheriff's Deputy Jack Hopkins, 31, who joined the force last year, was shot and killed after he and other deputies responded to a call near the Oregon border. A suspect was taken into custody but no other details have been released. Hopkins's death comes just weeks after a Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant was shot and killed in Lancaster while responding to a burglary call and two Palm Springs officers were gunned down while responding to a domestic disturbance.
OH Father Sentenced to Death for Killing Daughter: After deliberating for less than an hour on Monday, a jury recommended death for an Ohio man who starved and beat his two-year-old daughter to death. CBS reports that Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Megan Shanahan affirmed the jury's recommendation, sentencing Glen Bates, 34, to death for aggravated murder in the death of his daughter, Glenara. Glenara died in March 2015, the cause of death revealed to be blunt force trauma. An autopsy found that she had belt and bite marks, bruises, missing teeth, broken ribs, head trauma and other injuries. Prosecutors say she was slammed against the wall by Bates. Additionally, Glenara weighed just 13 pounds when she died, though the average weight of a two-year-old is over 20 pounds. Glenara's mother, Andrea Bradley, is also facing aggravated murder charges and has pleaded not guilty. Bates plans to appeal his sentence.
"The morality of preserving the death penalty": John Phillips has this piece in the OC Register arguing against Proposition 62, a California ballot initiative that would abolish the death penalty and replace it with life in prison without parole. Phillips disagrees with death penalty abolitionists' argument that the practice is a waste of taxpayer money and immoral, believing that not only is capital punishment a good use of resources, but "the moral answer to society's most immoral people." Two stats, he asserts, are significant to the his argument in favor of the death penalty: The state has never executed an innocent person and the recidivism rate is zero among those executed. CJLF Legal Director Kent Scheidegger, an author for Proposition 66, an opposing measure that would save the death penalty and expedite executions, says, "If the death penalty is abolished on Tuesday, the drive to abolish life without parole begins Wednesday."
OH Father Sentenced to Death for Killing Daughter: After deliberating for less than an hour on Monday, a jury recommended death for an Ohio man who starved and beat his two-year-old daughter to death. CBS reports that Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Megan Shanahan affirmed the jury's recommendation, sentencing Glen Bates, 34, to death for aggravated murder in the death of his daughter, Glenara. Glenara died in March 2015, the cause of death revealed to be blunt force trauma. An autopsy found that she had belt and bite marks, bruises, missing teeth, broken ribs, head trauma and other injuries. Prosecutors say she was slammed against the wall by Bates. Additionally, Glenara weighed just 13 pounds when she died, though the average weight of a two-year-old is over 20 pounds. Glenara's mother, Andrea Bradley, is also facing aggravated murder charges and has pleaded not guilty. Bates plans to appeal his sentence.
"The morality of preserving the death penalty": John Phillips has this piece in the OC Register arguing against Proposition 62, a California ballot initiative that would abolish the death penalty and replace it with life in prison without parole. Phillips disagrees with death penalty abolitionists' argument that the practice is a waste of taxpayer money and immoral, believing that not only is capital punishment a good use of resources, but "the moral answer to society's most immoral people." Two stats, he asserts, are significant to the his argument in favor of the death penalty: The state has never executed an innocent person and the recidivism rate is zero among those executed. CJLF Legal Director Kent Scheidegger, an author for Proposition 66, an opposing measure that would save the death penalty and expedite executions, says, "If the death penalty is abolished on Tuesday, the drive to abolish life without parole begins Wednesday."
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