Quick Glance: First Death Penalty Case Authorized by Biden Administration
- Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty against the gunman in a racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket in 2022, marking the first capital case authorized by the Biden administration.
- Gendron's defense attorneys stated in court that he would plead guilty to federal charges if prosecutors agreed not to pursue the death penalty.
- Biden's Justice Department has a mixed record on capital punishment, with Garland deauthorizing 26 death penalty cases involving 32 defendants started under previous administrations.
- Garland's decision in this case merely authorizes prosecutors to seek the death penalty.
HAPPENING NOW: New York Gov. Hochul to deliver remarks in remembrance of Buffalo massacre victims.
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Quick Glance: Terrorist-related mass killings in the United States have increased over the last decade: report
- According to an Anti-Defamation League report, the number of mass killings in the United States linked to extremism in the last decade was at least three times higher than in any other 10-year period since the 1970s.
- The report, which was provided to The Associated Press ahead of its public release on Thursday, also discovered that all extremist killings identified in 2022 were associated with right-wing extremism, with a disproportionate number associated with white supremacy.
- According to the report from the group's Center on Extremism, "It is not an exaggeration to say that we live in an age of extremist mass killings,"
Quick Glance: A Buffalo gunman pleads guilty in a racist attack that killed ten people.
- On Monday morning, the gunman who killed ten Black people in a racist massacre at a Buffalo supermarket in May pled guilty to state counts against him in Erie County Court.
- Following the hearing, Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn stated at a press conference, "Justice has been done today."
- "He immediately intentionally shot and killed Roberta Drury who was walking in the parking lot," Mr. Flynn said of the assailant.
- Ms. Everhart stated in a news conference with victims' relatives on Monday afternoon that the evidence read in court was the first time she had heard many of the details of that day.
"I've been starting to be more motivated and just trying to come to work with a positive attitude."
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"Right now, I need them as much as they need me."
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"The first line was, 'I started running as I cried. It really felt like I just died.'"
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"The community is angry."
"People are taking it one day at a time."
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Quick Glance: Prosecutor asks jury to execute Parkland school shooter
- On Monday, a prosecution urged jurors to execute the gunman who killed 17 people in a mass shooting at a Florida high school in 2018.
- Satz told the Broward County jury on Monday afternoon that Cruz committed "goal-directed, planned, systematic murder – mass murder – of 14 students, an athletic director, a teacher and a coach"
- Satz said Cruz had planned to be a school shooter long before the incident, referring to him as "the defendant" rather than by name.
- Satz stated that jurors will be shown video of the crime captured by school cameras.
Quick Glance: A Buffalo supermarket gunman has been charged with federal hate crimes.
- Payton S. Gendron, a Buffalo shooting defendant, stands in court on May 19, 2022, accused of killing ten people in a live-streamed grocery shooting in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo, N.Y.
- The criminal complaint filed against Payton Gendron on Wednesday coincided with Attorney General Merrick Garland's visit to Buffalo.
- Three children of 86-year-old victim Ruth Whitfield claimed they informed Garland during their private conversation that they didn't want him to see the Buffalo massacre "as a singular case."
- Three people were injured, one black and two white.
Quick Glance: Matthew McConaughey Demands Bipartisan Gun Control at the White House
- In an initial comment on social media, he made no mention of weapons or the second amendment, and in an op-ed in the Austin American-Statesman, he spoke only of increased gun responsibility.
- But, at the White House, the actor went a step further, calling for a slew of common-sense reforms while also sharing stories from his time in Uvalde after the shoot.
- One of the most moving moments was when McConaughey discussed meeting Maite Rodriguez's parents.
- Camila Alves McConaughey sobs as she holds the green Converse worn by 10-year-old Uvalde shooting victim Maite Yuleana Rodriguez during the White House news briefing, while her husband Matthew McConaughey speaks.
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