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Any soccer fans?
FIFA World Cup is here

USA first game in Group D
 
United States vs. Paraguay at 9 PM on FOX

Then comes the main event on Friday morning. Nasdaq's market makers will begin matching buy and sell orders to find an opening price, a process that, for large, highly watched IPOs, can stretch well past the opening bell.

By Friday afternoon, the world's most valuable private company will be private no longer, and the market, not SpaceX, will set the price from then on.

Where the stock opens compared to its $135 offer price, and where the stock closes on the first day of trade, will provide judgment on whether SpaceX's market debut is an initial success.

That form of capital punishment needs to end.

An interesting case.
Differs from past appeals because lower court made judgment on merits
Court could have took up merits but did not

The judge in Lee’s case sentenced him to death despite a jury’s recommendation of a life sentence. That judicial override procedure was repealed by Alabama in 2017, but the change in policy did not apply retroactively.

The Supreme Court has previously considered emergency appeals involving nitrogen hypoxia and allowed those executions to go forward. In October, the court denied a request from Anthony Boyd to halt his execution in Alabama without explanation. The court’s three liberals issued a striking dissent.


Justice Sonia Sotomayor encouraged Americans to start a stopwatch and reflect as the seconds turn into minutes.

“Now imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating,” Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, which was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. “You want to breathe; you have to breathe. But you are strapped to a gurney with a mask on your face pumping your lungs with nitrogen gas.”

“Your mind knows that the gas will kill you,” she continued. “But your body keeps telling you to breathe.”

The Supreme Court often sides with the state in last-minute death penalty cases on the emergency docket. But the legal posture of Lee’s case was different because, unlike in most emergency matters, a federal district court had entered a ruling on the merits. Steve Vladeck, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a CNN Supreme Court analyst, said the court’s decision would have amounted to an expansion of its emergency docket.

Alabama’s appeal, Vladeck wrote in a brief to the Supreme Court, should have been dealt with on its regular, merits docket on which the justices receive more extensive briefing and hear oral argument if the case is granted.

He may have been the “aggressor”. I didn’t speak to that allegation. The fact remains Metcalf told him to get out of the tent and then either shoved him, pushed him, or in someway hit him. That feels like an act of aggression to me. But, perhaps it was merely a love pat. Anthony was in the tent because it was storming outside and he was seeking shelter. In that situation, I don’t see where it would hurt anyone to offer him shelter. He was not “banned” from sporting events. In fact he was scheduled for 2 events that day.

Anthony was a student athlete at his school and carried a 3.7 GPA. That doesn’t fit the criteria of a degenerate, trouble making, “punk”. I’m sure in the moment he wasn’t thinking about the consequences. He felt threatened and reacted to what he perceived as threats. No, he should not have had a weapon but I bet in these days and times many young people have hidden weapons. It doesn’t make his actions any less deplorable.

He didn’t try to deny what he had done. He owned it and openly confessed the moment he was caught. His concern at the time was for Metcalf. Now I’m sure anyone can twist his actions and claim it was all for show but I don’t believe it was. He was provoked and afraid.

I’m not an advocate for solving your issues with violence but I do understand fear. Metcalf had a good 40 pounds on him. Anthony was a lightweight 160 pounder. Metcalf was a linebacker which means he was strong. Anthony knew that. Regardless of the perceived rules on the tents, what exactly is the harm in letting another person have a bit of space and comfort in the middle of a thunderstorm? Anthony’s team for whatever reason, failed to bring a tent that day.

The whole situation is horrible! Where I see a frightened young man, you see a “punk”. Someone you feel unworthy of compassion. There’s just far too much hatred among young people. I certainly can’t fix it. I don’t condone murder. However, I also don’t condone pure hatred towards another especially when your life is not affected one tiny bit by their actions.

He is not the first kid nor will he be the last kid who has had a 3.7 GPA and commit a murder. Look how smart Ted Bundy was. What I see was someone who was the aggressor, was told to leave an area, been suspended from school and showed up at a school event and that makes him a "frightened young man", no what that makes him is someone thinks he is entitled to snub the law.

The local weather people were so far off on weather for this morning. A storm has blown in and pouring rain.

I need a scream judge-it....

So Pos and T are good with this?

Wow!

I am perfectly fine with this until you have proof of your allegations..

Police aren't meant to solve problems.

I think the problem was the sentencing. This kid would have served only a year for killing someone.

When good behavior he can get out in 20 years and still be walking the Earth. His parents can visit him, call him, see him. His victim's parents have to visit their son in a cemetery and any goals he had died when he died.