|
(Continued from page 24)
tives and the daughter born to one of them -- and three counts of rape, against all three women.
• ___
Arias trial now turns to whether she should live or die for killing lover in 2008
• PHOENIX (AP) -- The jury has rendered its verdict -- Jodi Arias is guilty of first-degree murder -- but the trial is far from finished.
• The same jury now returns to the courtroom Thursday to decide whether she deserves to die for killing her one-time boyfriend on June 4, 2008 at his suburban Phoenix home.
• The sheer brutality of the attack and previous testimony from the Maricopa County Medical Examiner that Travis Alexander did not die a quick death will be at the heart of the prosecution's argument that Jodi should receive the ultimate punishment for her crime.
• Alexander was stabbed and slashed nearly 30 times, shot in the forehead and had slit his throat from ear to ear, leaving the motivational speaker and businessman nearly decapitated. His decomposing body was found in his shower about five days later by friends.
• Arias spoke out about the verdict minutes after her conviction Wednesday, telling a TV station that she would "prefer to die sooner than later."
• ___
Top Boston cop to tell Congress he's OK with more cameras, not 'police state,' after bombings
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Boston's police commissioner told lawmakers conducting the first congressional hearing on the Marathon bombings that government should tighten security around celebratory public events and consider using more undercover officers, special police units and technology, including surveillance cameras -- but only in ways that don't run afoul of civil liberties.
• "I do not endorse actions that move Boston and our nation into a police state mentality, with surveillance cameras attached to every light pole in the city," Commissioner Edward Davis said in prepared remarks for the House Homeland Security Committee. "We do not and cannot live in a protective enclosure because of the actions of extremists who seek to disrupt our way of life."
• Investigators used surveillance video from a restaurant near one of the explosions to help identify Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died in a police shootout, and (Continued on page 26)
|
|
