http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:18:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/03/senate-votes-to-expand-death-penalty-alternatives/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/03/senate-votes-to-expand-death-penalty-alternatives/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:12:37 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=14055 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/03/senate-votes-to-expand-death-penalty-alternatives/feed/ 0 For the second year, the Georgia Senate has again passed a Republican-penned proposal to give prosecutors the ability to seek life without parole against murder suspects. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/20/air-loaf-georgias-death-penalty/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/20/air-loaf-georgias-death-penalty/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:51:29 +0000 Alicia Wages http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=12960 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/20/air-loaf-georgias-death-penalty/feed/ 0 After Brian Nichols' verdict spared him a trip from death row, some began to think that our state's death penalty may be broken. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/19/add-it-up-fulton-sheriff%e2%80%99s-headaches/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/19/add-it-up-fulton-sheriff%e2%80%99s-headaches/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:12:18 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=12884 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/19/add-it-up-fulton-sheriff%e2%80%99s-headaches/feed/ 0 Amount for which the Fulton sheriff’s office is being sued for sexual harassment: $8 million Number of weeks newly elected Sheriff Ted Jackson was in office before the harassment lawsuit was filed: 1 Number of weeks previous Sheriff Myron Freeman had been in office before the Brian Nichols courthouse killings: 9 Number of years the Fulton sheriff’s office [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/22/last-weeks-top-posts-3/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/22/last-weeks-top-posts-3/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:40:16 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=11440 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/22/last-weeks-top-posts-3/feed/ 0 Housewives, death sentences and Milk (the movie). http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/15/word-travesty-of-death/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/15/word-travesty-of-death/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:12:22 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10917 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/15/word-travesty-of-death/feed/ 2 On Dec. 9, a three-judge panel heard the appeal of death row inmate Troy Davis, who claims he's innocent. Four days later, convicted courthouse killer Brian Nichols was spared the death penalty by a Fulton jury. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/13/courthouse-killer-spared/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/13/courthouse-killer-spared/#comments Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:52:07 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10902 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/13/courthouse-killer-spared/feed/ 1 Prosecutors failed to convince the jury that Brian Nichols should die for his crimes. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/12/annals-of-bizarro-still-no-death-sentence-for-nichols/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/12/annals-of-bizarro-still-no-death-sentence-for-nichols/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:40:08 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10877 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/12/annals-of-bizarro-still-no-death-sentence-for-nichols/feed/ 0 For three days, a Fulton jury has been struggling with the fate of convicted courthouse killer Brian Nichols. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/11/brian-nichols-jury-split-on-death-penalty-verdict/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/11/brian-nichols-jury-split-on-death-penalty-verdict/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:00:16 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10732 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/11/brian-nichols-jury-split-on-death-penalty-verdict/feed/ 0 Judge will ask jury to continue deliberating. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/07/brian-nichols-guilty/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/07/brian-nichols-guilty/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:05:07 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=8823 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/07/brian-nichols-guilty/feed/ 0 Brian Nichols was found guilty of murder this afternoon. Bookmark It http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/23/morning-headlines-140/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/23/morning-headlines-140/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:42:39 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/23/morning-headlines-140/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/23/morning-headlines-140/feed/ 0 TROY DAVIS: Will be killed by Georgia tonight, barring a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court. BAILOUT: What at first seemed like a tourniquet is starting to look more like a feather pillow for Wall Street, and congressional leaders are pointing out that we’ve been notoriously fooled before by this administration under guise of [...]