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Baltimore Breaks 300 Homicides: Two people were killed in Baltimore shooting Tuesday evening, marking the city's 300th recorded homicide for the year. Deborah Weiner from NBC reports that last year around this time, the homicide count in Baltimore reached 325, a result of the surge in crime following the April riots. Last year Baltimore recorded a grand total of 344 homicides, surpassed only by the 1993 record of 353.

Death Sentence Upheld in Chino: The California Supreme Court denied the automatic appeal of a man on death row Monday. According to Brian Rokos at the Press Enterprise, Daniel Landry, 48, stabbed inmate Daniel Addis to death at the California Institution for Men in Chino on Aug. 3, 1997. Due to the circumstances of the stabbing, Landry was sentenced to die based on a recommendation from the Jury as he was already serving a 70 year sentence for the attempted murder of a police officer. Landry's automatic appeal was unanimously denied Monday.


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