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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 2008
Page
16
A 12-year-old boy was arrested on first degree murder charges after beating a toddler to death with a baseball bat. He confessed to baby sitting two younger children and said the crying toddler triggered the attack. The girl Shaloh Joseph died from blunt force trauma.
The Georgia search for Meredith Emerson, 24, will shift to trained teams only as authorities treat the case as a recovery. Gary Michael Hilton, 61, charged with kidnapping, is set to appear in court Monday after being detained for using Emerson’s credit card.
Washington notes the current Supreme Court review of lethal injections follows a 25 year gap in executions the longest since the practice began. No one has been executed since September 25 and resumption may not occur until summer. The Kentucky case focuses on method and anesthesia rather than the morality of capital punishment.
The three drugs Sodium thiopental Pancuronium bromide and Potassium chloride face scrutiny as critics warn of excruciating pain if dosages fail or injections go wrong. Courts weigh acceptable pain risk for death row inmates Ralph Baze and Thomas Bowling Jr. were convicted of murder.
The court reviews a 2004 lawsuit by two men challenging Kentucky’s lethal injection methods as cruel and unusual punishment. They allege risk of severe pain due to flawed procedures, poorly trained staff, and secret rules, citing recent U S executions in Florida and Ohio while noting Kentucky’s own experience showed no obvious issues.
A potential shift away from the three drug lethal injection could force 14 states to rewrite law to resume executions 14 states may require legislation before resuming lethal injections electrocution remains in Nebraska 10 states keep or permit other methods including gas hanging firing squad and abolition varies by state with many limits and exemptions
Flooding from a canal breach in Fernley Nevada left hundreds of homes under up to eight feet of water as freezing temperatures formed ice across yards and streets. The breach followed heavy rains from a West Coast storm that dumped up to eleven feet of Sierra snow and cut power to thousands across the West. Utilities reported more than 215000 customers without power in Northern California, with outages possibly lasting days. In the mountains, six snowmobilers and two skiers were missing in southern Colorado and a hiker was missing in Southern California.
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