Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com • Section B • Wednesday, January 13, 2016 •
Court: Fla. death penalty system unconstitutional
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court said Florida’s system for sentencing people to death is unconstitutional because it gives too much power to judges – and not enough to juries – to decide capital sentences. The justices on Tuesday ruled 8-1 that the state’s sentencing procedure is flawed because juries play only an advisory role in recommending death while the judge can reach a different decision. The court ordered a new sentencing hearing for Timothy Lee Hurst, who was convicted of the 1998 murder of his manager at a Popeye’s restaurant in Pensacola. A jury divided 7-5 in favor of death, but a judge imposed the sentence. Florida’s solicitor general argued that the system was acceptable because a jury first decides whether the defendant is eligible for the death penalty.
Police: Man mistakes son, 14, for intruder, kills him
CINCINNATI – Police said an armed man who believed he was confronting an intruder in the basement of his Cincinnati home fatally shot his 14-yearold son instead. The distraught man said in his 911 call Tuesday morning that he thought the boy was in school. Police said the teen had left for school, but apparently he came back home through a back door. The man said he heard a noise downstairs and fired with a handgun when the boy “scared” him. The boy died at a hospital. Police identified the boy as Georta Mack. They didn’t immediately release the name of the father, who’s heard in the tape shouting, “Oh, God, please hurry!” Police officials said the prosecutor’s office will decide whether there should be any charges.
The ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON – Iran was holding 10 U.S. Navy sailors and their two small boats that drifted into Iranian waters after experiencing mechanical problems. Iran accused the sailors of trespassing but American officials said Tehran has assured them that the crew and vessels would be returned safely and promptly. The sailors, nine men and one woman, were being held overnight at an Iranian base on Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf, and were expected to be transferred to a U.S. ship in the region on Wednesday morning local time. Officials said they believe the U.S. had spoken to one of the crew, and all 10 were fine and uninjured. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told The Associated Press that the Riverine boats were moving between Kuwait and Bahrain when the U.S. lost contact with them. U.S. officials said that the incident happened near Farsi Island in the middle of the Gulf. They said some type of mechanical trouble with one of the boats caused them to drift into Iranian territorial waters near the island, and they were picked up by Iran. The semi-official Iranian news agency, FARS, said
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the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s navy has detained 10 foreign forces, believed to be Americans, and said the sailors were trespassing in Iranian waters. “We have been in contact with Iran and have received assurances that the crew and the vessels will be returned promptly,” Cook said. The incident came amid heightened tensions with Iran, and only hours before President Barack Obama was set to deliver his final State of the Union address to Congress and the public. It set off a dramatic series of calls and meetings as U.S. officials tried to determine the exact status of the crew and reach out to Iranian leaders. Secretary of State John Kerry, who forged a personal relationship with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif through three years of nuclear negotiations, called Zarif immediately on learning of the incident, according to a senior U.S. official. Kerry “personally engaged with Zarif on this issue to try to get to this outcome,” the official said. Kerry learned of the incident around 11:30 a.m. as he and Defense Secretary Ash Carter were meeting their Filipino counterparts at the State Department, the official said.
The ASSOCIATED PRESS ISTANBUL – A suicide bomber detonated a bomb in the heart of Istanbul’s historic district on Tuesday, killing 10 foreigners – most of them German tourists – and wounding 15 other people in the latest in a string of attacks by the Islamic extremists targeting Westerners. The blast, just steps from the historic Blue Mosque in the city’s storied Sultanahmet district, was the first by IS to target Turkey’s vital tourism sector, although IS militants have struck elsewhere in the country. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the bomber was a member of IS and pledged to battle the militant group until it no longer “remains a threat” to Turkey
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ers. The wounded also included citizens of Norway, Peru, South Korea and Turkey. Turkey’s state-run news agency said Davutoglu held a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to express his condolences. “I strongly condemn the terror incident that occurred in Istanbul, at the Sultanahmet Square, and which has been assessed as being an attack by a Syria-rooted suicide bomber,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. Merkel pledged Germany would continue its fight against terrorism. “Today Istanbul was the target, before Paris, Copenhagen, Tunis, and so many other areas,” she told reporters in Berlin. “International terror changes the places of its attacks but its goal is always the same – it is our free life, in free society. The terrorists are the enemies of all free people, indeed, the enemies of all humanity, whether in Syria or Turkey, in France or Germany.”
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or the world. Davutoglu described the assailant as a “foreign national,” and Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said he was a Syrian citizen born in 1988. However, the private Dogan news agency said the bomber was Saudi-born. Kurtulmus said the attacker was believed to have recently entered Turkey from Syria and was not among a list of potential bombers wanted by Turkey. “Turkey won’t backtrack in its struggle against Daesh ...,” Davutoglu said, referring to IS by its Arabic acronym. “This terror organization, the assailants and all of their connections will be found and they will receive the punishments they deserve.” Eight Germans were among the dead and nine others were wounded, some seriously, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters in Berlin. The nationalities of the two others killed in the blast were not immediately released, but both were foreign-
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Senate panel approves nominee to lead FDA
WASHINGTON – A Senate panel has voted to approve Dr. Robert Califf to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, but the nomination may face trouble on the Senate floor. Califf is the No. 2 official at the agency, which regulates consumer products from medications to seafood to e-cigarettes. He was a prominent cardiologist and medical researcher at Duke University for more than 30 years. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said she will hold up the nomination until she has reassurances from the FDA that genetically modified salmon will be labeled as such. Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont also has opposed Califf over pharmaceutical prices. The Democratic presidential contender has said he is considering holding up the nomination.
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U.S. inspecting trucks bound for U.S. in Mexico
TIJUANA, Mexico – U.S. border authorities have started working on Mexican soil to inspect trucks entering the U.S. as part of a new enforcement program intended to reduce congestion and speed cargo crossings. The effort was launched Tuesday at a facility in Tijuana, Mexico, with U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel looking over a shipment of strawberries headed to San Diego. Mexican authorities also are staffing the facility. Mexico initially resisted letting U.S. officials carry guns as part of the change. In April, Mexican lawmakers approved changes to the country’s firearms law to permit foreign customs and immigration officials to be armed on the job. There were no trucks in line Tuesday, making it impossible to gauge how quickly the inspections occur. Estimates indicate waiting times for drivers could be cut in half.
– Wire reports
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