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It looks like Miami residents and business owners calling on city government to fight to uphold a law banning panhandling downtown are in for a let-down. In a memo issued Thursday to city commissioners and the mayor, assistant city attorney John A. Greco wrote that the city's legal office does not intend to challenge an Aug. 3 decision by a panel of the 11th Circuit appellate division striking down the law, which levied fines and criminal charges for anyone caught street begging in the downtown business district.
Four months after Arkansas officials sparked outrage by trying to kill eight inmates in 11 days , the state has set another execution date - this time for a murderer who stabbed, shot and beat a retired minister with a can of hominy but who is, according to his lawyers, too delusional to be put to death. Jack Greene, 62, is scheduled for a lethal injection on Nov. 9. He has no pending appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his case last year.
Florida has put a man to death with an anesthetic never used before in a U.S. lethal injection, carrying out its first execution in more than 18 months on an inmate convicted of two racially motivated murders. Authorities said 53-year-old Mark Asay, the first white man executed in Florida for the killing of a black man, was pronounced dead at 6:22 p.m. Thursday at the state prison in Starke.
This past Tuesday, well over one hundred and fifty years since the end of the Civil War, a powerful, well-connected, well-to-do Southern white man, Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, exercised his law-given authority to stay the execution of Marcellus Williams, a poor black man. The reprieve was issued hours before the scheduled pumping of caustic chemicals by state officials into Williams's body.
In a milestone ruling, India's Supreme Court Thursday declared that privacy is a fundamental right for each of its 1-point-3 billion citizens protected under the constitution. India, the world's biggest democracy, joins the United States, Canada, South Africa, the European Union, and the United Kingdom in recognizing that there is such a right.
Much of the country has demanded the elimination of references to, and images of, people of the past - from Christopher Columbus to Robert E. Lee - who do not meet our evolving standards of probity. In some cases, such damnation may be understandable if done calmly and peacefully - and democratically, by a majority vote of elected representatives.
Since Florida reinstated the death penalty in 1976, at least 20 black men have been executed for killing white victims, according to data from the Death Penalty Information Center. On Thursday, Mark James Asay - a former white supremacist prison gang member once inked with a swastika tattoo - is scheduled to become the first, by way of lethal injection with a drug never before used in a U.S. execution.
The drug etomidate has never before been used in any U.S. execution, but the state of Florida hopes that won't result in the state's first execution in more than 18 months being halted by the nation's highest court. If his final appeals are denied by the U.S. Supreme Court, 53-year-old Mark Asay is to die by lethal injection after 6 p.m. Thursday.
Theresa May's promise to totally remove Britain from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice after Brexit "shows just how ignorant she is," a former British ECJ judge has told Business Insider. Sir Edward David, who was an ECJ judge for 12 years, told BI this week that the prime minister's determination to cut all ties with the ECJ suggests she doesn't fully understand how the Luxembourg-based court actually works.
Florida on Thursday put a man to death with an anesthetic never used before in a U.S. lethal injection, carrying out its first execution in more than 18 months on an inmate convicted of two racially motivated murders. Authorities said 53-year-old Mark Asay, the first white man executed in Florida for the killing of a black man, was pronounced dead at 6:22 p.m. Thursday at the state prison in Starke.
For the first time in state history, Florida is expecting to execute a white man Thursday for killing a black person - and it plans to do so with the help of a drug that has never been used before in any U.S. execution. Barring a stay, Mark Asay, 53, is scheduled to die by lethal injection after 6 p.m. Asay was convicted by a jury of two racially motivated, premeditated murders in Jacksonville in 1987.
In Personal Audio LLC v. Electronic Frontier Foundation , the Federal Circuit ruled that an IPR petitioner does not need to satisfy Article III standing requirements in order to participate in a patent owner's appeal from a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision in an IPR proceeding.
Marcellus Williams, 48, is scheduled to die Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre for stabbing to death former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Lisha Gayle during a 1998 robbery at her home in the suburb of University City. It would be the state's second execution of 2017.
The Argus Leader reports that the state Supreme Court has set oral arguments for later this month in the state's lawsuit against the internet retailers in its bid to force the companies to pay sales taxes. A loss would allow the state to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which could be heard by the court in its next session if the state ruling is quick enough.
The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the new prison sentenced for a man who took part in the 1998 stabbing death of another teen in a Bellevue city park. Daniel Lee Jones was 17 at the time of the stabbing death of 19-year-old Scott Catenacci.
Texas Sen. Carlos Uresti, D-San Antonio, votes on an amendment during debate on a call for a "convention of states" that would amend the U.S. Constitution and impose things like a federal balanced budget requirement and term limits in the senate chamber, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Austin, Texas. In September, state lawmakers from around the country will gather at the Arizona capitol to draw up rules for a future convention that will attempt to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
The State Department says at least one American was killed and one injured in the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils, Spain. The State Department says at least one American was killed and one injured in the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils, Spain.
A statue of the U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery and denied citizenship to African Americans was removed from the grounds of the Maryland State House early Friday.
President Donald Trump tripled down on his controversial reaction to the violence in Charlottesville, taking to Twitter Wednesday to decry the growing movement to remove Confederate statues and monuments. Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments.