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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (1190)	3/12/2005 1:10:11 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5290

Does Georgia make use of the death penalty? This would be a case for its application.

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (1190)	3/12/2005 10:05:24 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 5290

Atlanta judge gunned down AP ATLANTA -- A judge presiding over a rape trial was shot to death yesterday along with two other people at the Fulton County Courthouse, authorities said. A fourth person was critically wounded and the suspect, the defendant at the trial, remained at large hours later. Lt.-Gov. Mark Taylor confirmed that Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes and his court reporter were killed. He gave no other details in announcing the deaths in the state Senate. A deputy died later at a hospital, authorities said. Witnesses said the gunman carjacked a vehicle and authorities were searching for a green Honda Accord that was hijacked from a newspaper reporter. Fulton County Sheriff's Lieut. Clarence Huber identified the suspect as Brian Nichols, 33, who was on trial on rape and other charges stemming from an incident in August. The suspect got the gun by overpowering a sheriff's deputy while he was being escorted within the courthouse, assistant police Chief Alan Dreher said. He then went to the courtroom, held about a dozen people there at bay for a short time and then shot and killed the judge and court reporter, he said. Another deputy was later killed outside the courthouse. "We are working very diligently to bring the suspect to justice," Dreher said at a midafternoon briefing. Details are still being sorted out. The injured deputy was under sedation, he said. Doctors had said she was wounded in the head. Barnes, 64, had presided over the case of NHL star Dany Heatley, who was involved in a 2003 car crash that killed his 25-year-old teammate, Dan Snyder. Heatley pleaded guilty and was sentenced Feb. 4 to three years on probation and ordered to give 150 speeches about the dangers of speeding. Yesterday, the people in Barnes' courtroom were there for routine civil matters. Nichols was being brought there for the planned resumption of his trial, Dreher said. "We heard some noise. It sounded like three or four shots. At the time, we thought it was just an engine backfiring," said Chuck Cole, a civil defence lawyer who was in an adjoining parking deck when he heard gunfire at around 9:10 a.m. The sheriff's deputy shot outside the building died at Grady Hospital of an abdominal wound and the other was in critical condition but expected to survive, the hospital said. "I saw one person on the street that they were performing CPR on," said court reporter Amy McKee. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Don O'Briant, a features reporter for the paper, was beaten by the suspect and carjacked outside the courthouse. O'Briant was taken to hospital. All the judges in the building were locked in their chambers. The courthouse and other buildings in downtown Atlanta were on lockdown. Schools around the area were also put on lockdown. canoe.ca