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Oregon Militia Spokesman Killed In Shootout With Feds

Arizona rancher LaVoy Finicum, left, and Ammon Bundy, Militia Leader in Oregon.

By Red Power Media, Staff

Leaders of armed occupation at the Oregon wildlife refuge arrested

One person is dead and 8 people arrested — including militia leaders Ammon and Ryan Bundy — after the FBI and the Oregon State Police moved in on the group along a highway.

The militiamen were driving to a community meeting in John Day – 70 miles from Burns – when they were stopped by police, about 4:25 p.m.

Video: Bundy brothers arrested in traffic stop by FBI, OSP

Within minutes, shots were fired, wounding Ryan Bundy and killing militia spokesman LaVoy Finicum.

It is not clear who opened fire first.

Bundy Ranch, on its Facebook page, said in a post Tuesday evening that Arizona resident Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, author of the novel Only by Blood and Suffering, was shot and killed during…

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PA Man Charged With Murder Of Girlfriend After He Backed Out Of Suicide Pact

A Pennsylvania man has been charged with murder after allegedly injecting his girlfriend with a fatal dose of cocaine as part of a suicide pact, but then pulling out of killing himself after watching her die.

Anthony Michael Noble, 27, of Phoenixville, is also charged with drug delivery resulting in death, tampering with evidence, and related crimes.

His girlfriend, Joette L. Mullen, 27, was found dead in her car on the morning of December 14 near Schuylkill Canal Park in Mont Clare.

She and Noble had made a ‘Rome and Juliet-style’ suicide pact, but that he pulled out after witnessing Mullen have a seizure and die, Philly.com reported.

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele says the evidence shows Noble purposefully prepared a fatal dose of cocaine and then injected it in Mullen’s arm.

‘This is First Degree Murder similar to a case where somebody takes a gun, loads it, points it at somebody, pulls the trigger and kills them,’ he told Georgia World.

In his first interview with police, Noble said that he and Mullen were using rock and powder cocaine they bought in Philadelphia on December 13.

He said they agreed to do ‘big shots’ and, and passed out after injecting her and himself.

He claimed that he woke to find Mullen unresponsive.

Noble said he tried CPR, but fled when he realized she was dead.

He said he took the drugs and through everything in the river.

He told police that Mullen ‘hated life and didn’t want to be here anymore’.

However police then interviewed one of Noble’s friends, who said the suspect told him about the suicide pact, which he described as ‘Romeo and Juliet-style’.

He said Noble couldn’t go through with the pact after seeing what happened to Mullen.

Noble was then interviewed again by police, and admitted to what happened.

Mullen’s mother, Linda Ward, said her daughter suffered from depression.

Mullen’s last text message was to her mother – sent at 2:04 a.m. the day she was found dead, and said: ‘Mom, I’m fine.’

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President Obama Bans Solitary Confinement For Juveniles & Low Level Offenders

WASHINGTON — President Obama is moving to ban solitary confinement for juveniles and low-level offenders in federal prisons, a change long sought by advocates of prison reform who argue the punishment exacts a devastating and permanent mental toll.Obama was influenced by a U.S.

Department of Justice review that determined the practice reduces the chances that prisoners can be acclimated back into society, he said in a Washington Post op-ed piece.

Obama stated that solitary confinement has been “increasingly overused … with heartbreaking results,” and subsequently ordering federal penitentiaries to cease using the punishment on juvenile offenders in the federal prisons and on prisoners who committed non-serious offenses.

He went on to say that it may be necessary in case of violent or misbehaving prisoners, but otherswise “be limited, applied with constraints and used only as a measure of last resort.”

The White House said Obama was also adopting Justice Department recommendations that would limit solitary confinement for prisoners with mental illness and avoid using the practice as a tool to segregate prisoners who face threats from fellow inmates. He wrote in the Post that the move would affect 10,000 federal prisoners.

“The United States is a nation of second chances, but the experience of solitary confinement too often undercuts that second chance,”

Obama wrote in the Post op-ed.

“Those who do make it out often have trouble holding down jobs, reuniting with family and becoming productive members of society. Imagine having served your time and then being unable to hand change over to a customer or look your wife in the eye or hug your children.
How can we subject prisoners to unnecessary solitary confinement, knowing its effects, and then expect them to return to our communities as whole people? It doesn’t make us safer. It’s an affront to our common humanity.”

In his final year in office, Obama has said that he’d redouble his efforts on criminal justice reform, including improving conditions in federal prisons and encouraging states to adopt new rules that hew more closely to updated research on corrections facilities. In July he became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison, and he has spoken candidly about issues like prison rape and criminal re-entry programs.

The goal, officials have said, is to improve the chances that incarcerated Americans become functioning members of society after serving their sentences.