During a standoff, police asked Facebook to suspend an armed woman’s social media accounts because people commenting on videos she was posting were encouraging her not to comply with officers, authorities said Tuesday.
Korryn Gaines, 23, was shot to death Monday at her Randallstown apartment after a five-hour standoff with officers who were trying to serve an arrest warrant, police said.
The suit against game makers Niantic Inc., Nintendo Co., and the Pokémon Company seeks class-action status for others who have had Pokémon stops and gyms placed on their property.
Delaware’s death penalty law is unconstitutional in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year, the state’s high court ruled Tuesday.
In a 148-page opinion, a majority of the Delaware Supreme Court justices said the state law violates the U.S. Constitution because it allows a judge to sentence a person to death independently of a jury’s recommendation.
The court also said the law is unconstitutional because it does not require jurors to be unanimous in finding aggravating circumstances that weigh in favor of the death penalty.
Massachusetts native Daniel Shays was a Revolutionary War veteran who led a protest against the state’s harsh economic policies.
