August 8, 2012
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Tucson, Ariz. Mass Killer Pleads Guilty
Avoids death
penalty in
assassination
attempt
(A P ) — Ja re d L ee L o u g h n e r
a g re e d T u e s d a y to sp e n d the
re st o f his life in p riso n , a c
c e p tin g th a t he w e n t o n a
d e a d ly sh o o tin g ra m p a g e at an
A rizo n a p o litica l g a th e rin g and
sp a rin g the v ic tim s a le n g th y ,
p o ssib ly tra u m a tic d e a th -p e n -
a lty tria l.
H is p lea cam e soon after a
federal ju d g e found that m onths
o f p s y c h ia tr ic tre a tm e n t fo r
sch izo p h ren ia m ade L oughner
a
b
l
e
to u n d erstan d ch arg es that he
killed six people and w ounded 13
o thers, including his intended
ta r g e t, th e n - R e p . G a b r ie lle
G iffords.
“ 1 p lead g u ilty ,” the 23-year-
old college dro p o u t said.
H is h a ir c lo s e ly c ro p p e d ,
L o u g h n e r w as not th e sm ilin g ,
b a ld -h e a d e d su s p e c t c a p tu re d Jared Lee Loughner
in a m u g sh o t so o n a fte r the
Ja n u a ry 2011 sh o o tin g .
W earing khakis, L o ughner sat
quietly throughout the hearing
and sm iled at one point w hen a
p sychologist testifying about his
co m p eten ce rem ark ed that he
had bonded w ith one o f the fed
eral prison guards.
A fter the hearing, L oughner's
parents cried and em braced. T he
victim s m ostly ju st w atched w ith
out expression.
T he outcom e w as w elcom ed
by so m e v ic tim s , in c lu d in g
G iffords herself, as a way to
m ove on.
“T he pain and loss cau sed by
the events o f Jan. 8, 2011, are
in calcu lab le,” G iffo rd s said in a
jo in t statem ent w ith her husband,
M ark K elly. “A v o id in g a trial
w ill allow us — an d we hope the
w hole S outhern A rizo n a c o m
m unity — to co n tin u e w ith o u r
re c o v e ry .”
E xperts had co n clu d ed that
L o u g h n er suffers from sch izo
phrenia, and o fficials at a federal
prison have forcibly m edicated
him w ith p sy ch o tro p ic d ru gs for
m ore than a year.
Sikh Temple Shooter Espoused Hate
Shooter was frustrated neo-Nazi, civil rights group says
( A P ) :— A 4 0 -y ear-o ld A rm y
veteran, identified by a civil rights
g ro u p as the on e-tim e lead er o f
a w hite su prem acist band, w as
the gunm an w ho killed six people
inside a Sikh tem ple in W isco n
sin, officials said M onday.
W ade M ichael P age is ac
cu sed o f w alking into the Sikh
T em p le o f W isconsin in su b u r
ban M ilw aukee and open ed fire
as several d o zen p eo p le p re
pared for Sunday services. W hen
the shooting finally ended, seven
people lay dead, including Page,
w ho w as shot to d eath by police.
T h re e o th e rs w e re c ritic a lly
w o u n d ed in w hat police called
an act o f do m estic terrorism .
P age w as a "frustrated neo-
N azi" w ho led a racist w hite
su p rem acist band, the Southern
P overty L aw C en ter said M o n
day. Page told a w hite suprem a
cist w ebsite in an interview in
2010 that he h ad been part o f the
w h ite-p o w er m usic scene since
2 0 0 0 w hen he left his native
C o lo rad o and started the band,
E nd A pathy, in 2005, the n o n
He did not m ention violence in
S o -called "Psy-O ps" sp ecial
the w ebsite interview .
ists are responsible for the an aly
profit civil rights organization
Page joined the military in M il sis, developm ent and distribution
said.
w aukee in 1992 and w as a re o f intelligence used for in fo rm a
H e to ld the w eb site his "in sp i pairm an fo r the H aw k m issile tion and p sy ch o lo g ical effect;
ration w as based on frustration system before sw itching jo b s to they research and an aly ze m eth
that w e have the potential to becom e one o f the A rm y's p sy ods o f influencing foreign p o p u
accom plish so m uch m ore as chological operations specialists, lations.
in d iv id u a ls an d a so c ie ty in according to the defense o ffi
Fort B ragg, N .C ., w as am o n g
¿vhole," acco rd in g to the SPLC . cial.
the bases w here Page served.
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