High Profile Cases. Racial Bias in Death Penalty Cases: A North Carolina Test - Andrew Cohen - National. A judge gives life to an extraordinary new law designed to remedy the state's long history of prejudice in capital trials. The execution chamber at Central prison in Raleigh, N.C / AP If we still want to have a sound and sober national conversation about race and justice, if we still are eager to use a single case as a totem for what we perceive to be wrong or unjust about the criminal justice system, perhaps we all would be better served by paying attention to what's happening in North Carolina to a man named Marcus Robinson than we are by paying attention to what's happening in Florida to a man named George Zimmerman. State "Stand Your Ground" self-defense laws, like the one about to save Zimmerman, may be today's fashionable example of a way in which the law is manipulated to achieve a particular result (by design, these ALEC-infused "affirmative defenses" allow more people to kill more people without being punished for it).
An apology. An indictment. And also a warning. 82nd Airborne Division. History[edit] Origins[edit] World War I[edit] St. Mihiel[edit] Meuse-Argonne[edit] 328th Infantry Regiment of 82nd Division advances in preparation to capture Hill 223 on 7 October 1918. Post-war[edit] The division suffered 995 killed and 7,082 wounded, for a total of 8,077 casualties.[8] Following the war's end, the division moved to training areas near Prauthoy, where it remained through February 1919.[6] It returned to the United States in April and May, and was demobilized and deactivated at Camp Mills, New York on 27 May.[1] World War II[edit] Louisiana to Italy[edit] The 82nd Division was redesignated on 13 February 1942 as Division Headquarters, 82nd Division. 505th DUI During this training period, the division brought together four officers who would ultimately steer the US Army during the following two decades: Matthew B.
Normandy[edit] 82nd Airborne Division drop near Grave in the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden. North Carolina Representatives. More North Carolina Colleges. The Tea Party, the debt ceiling, and white Southern extremism - War Room. The Tea Party movement takes its name from the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American patriots dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest British imperial power.
But while New England was the center of resistance to the British empire, there are few New Englanders to be found in today’s Tea Party movement. It should be called the Fort Sumter movement, after the Southern attack on the federal garrison in Fort Sumter in South Carolina on April 12-13, 1861, that began the Civil War. Today’s Tea Party movement is merely the latest of a series of attacks on American democracy by the white Southern minority, which for more than two centuries has not hesitated to paralyze, sabotage or, in the case of the Civil War, destroy American democracy in order to get their way.
The mainstream media have completely missed the story, by portraying the Tea Party movement in ideological rather than regional terms. The 10 Craziest State Legislatures In America | News & Politics. July 22, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. While attention was naturally focused on the changes in Congress that came as a result of the 2010 elections, an overlooked, but vitally important, consequence of those elections was the strong rightward shift in legislatures across the state. As of the beginning of legislative sessions this year, 26 states were controlled by Republicans, with only 15 in the hands of Democrats.Not surprisingly, this has meant an epidemic of right-wing legislation being proposed and passed across the country.
The worst things that have passed, in both quantity and quality, are coming from Republican-controlled legislatures. Based on what they've done so far this year, here are the 10 worst in the United States. 10. The law granted sweeping new authority to appointed managers, including powers to cancel or renegotiate union contracts, sell off assets and privatize public services. 9. 8. 7. Sen. Goolsby doubles down on support for accused troopers. State Sen. Thom Goolsby, a Wilmington Republican and lawyer, said Wednesday his support for two state troopers accused of misconduct is not shaken by the release of text messages showing the law officers profanely expressed ridicule and contempt for a woman wrongfully arrested for drunken driving.
Over the weekend, Goolsby issued a statement giving his unequivocal support to Senior Trooper Edward S. Wyrick and Trooper Andrew M. Smith. "As an attorney who practices in our local courts, I have known these troopers for the entire time they have enforced the law in southeastern North Carolina," Goolsby wrote in an e-mail to The N&O. On Tuesday the patrol released text messages showing that the two troopers exchanged messages shortly after Gina Tessener twice blew a 0.00 on an an alcohol breath test, prompting a comment from her lawyer husband that Wyrick should be ashamed of himself.
"Hahahaha f--- her and f--- him," Smith texted to Wyrick after learning of the exchange. Taser Death Lawsuit Results in $10M Award. By: Staff Writers | Published: July 25th, 2011 A North Carolina jury has awarded $10 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against Taser International, Inc., which was filed by the family of a teen who died after being shocked with a Taser stun gun. The complaint was brought by Devoid Turner and Tammy Lou Fontenot, the parents of Darryl Turner, who was 17 when he died in a supermarket in Charlotte after being shot in the chest by a Taser Model X26 electronic control device on March 20, 2008.
According to the Taser death lawsuit, the manufacturer was negligent in failing to warn law enforcement that shooting their stun gun weapons into the chest of a subject could cause cardiac arrest. Following trial in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, a federal jury awarded $10 million in damages. Darryl Turner died after a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officer shot him with his Taser in an attempt subdue him. Oklahoma Senate Votes To Defund Planned Parenthood Two Days After Tornado. In the wake of one of the most destructive tornadoes in history, Oklahoma state senators passed a bill on Wednesday that would effectively defund Planned Parenthood. Senate Bill 900, which re-allocates family planning funds to public providers and hospitals instead of private providers like Planned Parenthood, passed by a vote of 33 to 8.
The state Senate was able to pass the bill somewhat under the radar because it was not posted on Wednesday's legislative agenda. Planned Parenthood operates five clinics in Oklahoma and serves about 8,400 men and women there a year. The family planning provider has faced scrutiny from Republicans in recent years because it provides abortions, even though it cannot use public family planning funding to pay for abortion services. State Rep. Doug Cox (R), a family physician, said he will vote against the legislation when the House takes it up on Thursday. Also on HuffPost: