NATION/WORLD
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
U.S. seeking death
penalty in Charleston
church massacre case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Justice Department intends to seek
the death penalty against Dylann
Roof, the man charged with killing
nine black parishioners last year
in a church in Charleston, South
Carolina, Attorney General Loretta
Lynch said Tuesday.
“The nature of the alleged crime
and the resulting harm compelled
this decision,” Lynch said in a brief
statement.
Roof is awaiting trial on federal
hate crime charges in connection
racial violence. Survivors told police
that he hurled racial insults during
the attack. He was arrested a day
after the shootings when a motorist
spotted his Confederate license plate.
with the June 17 Emanuel AME
Church shooting, which contributed
to a national conversation about
race relations and ultimately led to
the removal of a Confederate battle
lag from the grounds of the South
Carolina Statehouse.
Roof is also charged in state
court with nine counts of murder,
and South Carolina prosecutors have
already announced plans to seek the
death penalty when he stands trial
on those charges next year. Solicitor
Scarlett Wilson has said she wants
her case to be tried irst.
Roof, who is white, appeared in
photos waving Confederate lags and
burning or desecrating U.S. lags,
and purportedly wrote of fomenting
Native groups protest
planned French auction
of artifacts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Native
American leaders are protesting the
latest plan by a Paris auction house
to sell off part of their tribal history,
and their demand for the return of
their ceremonial objects is getting
bipartisan support.
Hundreds of religious items and
East Oregonian
art pieces from the Americas, Africa
and Asia are scheduled to go up
for bidding Monday at Paris’ EVE
auction house, including a Plains war
shirt made with hair from human
scalps and sacred Hopi objects that
resemble masks and are considered
to be living beings by the tribe.
Ahead of the sale, the
Smithsonian’s National Museum
of the American Indian held an
emergency meeting Tuesday with
tribal oficials, the State Department
and federal Bureau of Indian
Affairs. Also at the meeting was
U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, a New
Mexico Republican whose proposed
resolution urges federal agencies to
seek their return.
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Pearce also is calling for a study
to examine how often these kinds of
cultural items fall into the hands of
trafickers on the black market.
The Paris auctions have been a
diplomatic issue for years between
the United States and France, where
U.S. laws prohibiting the sale of
Native American ceremonial items
hold no weight.
“It drives us to tears. It’s that
upsetting,” said Eileen Maxwell, a
museum spokeswoman. “It’s very
frustrating that there is no legal
recourse now.”
Other objects to be auctioned
off include an Acoma Pueblo
ceremonial shield, ancient jewelry
and efigies linked to the Hohokam.
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