Shooter of Congresswoman Expected to Plead Guilty for Mass Shooting
Jared Lee Loughner is expected to plead guilty this week to the shooting in Arizona that killed 6 people and injured 13. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was the most prominent victim of the shooting, and she has sustained brain damage as a result of the incident.
A psychiatrist is expected to testify that Loughner is competent to stand trial. His guilty plea will likely lead to a sentence of life in prison, according to the Associated Press.
Loughner is being charged with 49 counts, include attempted assassination of a member of Congress. A federal judge was also among those killed during the shooting, as well as a 9-year old girl.
Giffords is working to recover, but has very serious brain damage as a result of the incident. She is not able to speak and move as she once did, but courageously returned to Congress to vote on a debt ceiling bill. She resigned in January of this year.
The shooting revamped the on-going debate about gun control. Loughner had been arrested for exhibiting odd behavior in the past, and some think that he never should have been allowed to buy a gun. One victim called the shooting an “extremely tragic example of what is at stake each and every time a gun falls — or is placed — in the wrong hands.”
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Only life in prison? I thought when you kill 6 people that is an automatic death penalty. Oh well. That’s white privilege for ya.
Renee
August 5, 2012 at 10:43 am
Yeah and put to Troy Davis to death with no evidence! You tell me this government in this nation stands in justice FOR ALL..they are all full of bigotry and they will die to live in the bottomless pits of a pure living h**l. I may be going there myself one day but it wont be in the bottomless if my judgement calls for it. It’s a shame how the black family suffers torment and grief due to the white corrupt judges across this nation.
Kim
August 5, 2012 at 2:41 pm
What bothers me about this case is no he lived with his parents who had to know something was wrong with their son and have NEVER been held responsible. The blood of the victims is in their hands as much as with the killer himself.
Herman Hawkins Jr.
August 5, 2012 at 3:49 pm