Morning Updates: Murder by asthma, Joe Biden ribs Yale
Good morning, Boston. Here are the stories you need to know for the day ahead.
The death penalty sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is just the beginning: “If you compare the death penalty to an airline trip, returning the verdict is simply the plane taking off,’’ said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. “With the appeals process, we’re not sure exactly where it’s going to go and whether it’s going to land with a death sentence and the conviction upheld, or with a reversal.’’ (Boston.com)
Murder by asthma? “The young man was aiming at a rival on a January evening in 2012 when he sent a barrage of bullets into a group on Blue Hill Avenue, prosecutors say. Everyone scattered, and no one was hit. But about a block away, a 40-year-old man fleeing the gunfire began gasping for air. He was having an asthma attack so severe that it left him in a coma. Six weeks later, he was dead.
“Michael ‘Fresh’ Stallings, 26 , the alleged shooter, is now facing trial on charges of first-degree murder for the asthma-triggered death of Kelvin Rowell as he ran, panicked, from the gunfire.’’ (The Boston Globe)
Amtrak resumes service after deadly crash: “As Amtrak plans to resume services Monday on its Northeast Corridor, top officials are promising the trains and the tracks will be safer because of changes made since last week’s deadly passenger train derailment in Philadelphia.’’ (Boston.com)
Obama moves to limit military equipment for local police: “Mr. Obama is taking the action after a task force he created in January decided that police departments should be barred from using federal funds to acquire items that include tracked armored vehicles, the highest-caliber firearms and ammunition, and camouflage uniforms. … The report from the task force on military equipment cited the police response to the Ferguson unrest as an example of how the ‘militarization’ of police departments can lead to fear and mistrust.’’ (The New York Times)
Pats owner Robert Kraft is none too pleased: “I just get really worked up. To receive the harshest penalty in league history is just not fair,’’ Kraft said. “The anger and frustration with this process, to me, it wasn’t fair. If we’re giving all the power to the NFL and the office of the commissioner, this is something that can happen to all 32 teams. We need to have fair and balanced investigating and reporting. But in this report, every inference went against us … inferences from ambiguous, circumstantial evidence all went against us. That’s the thing that really bothers me.’’ (The MMQB)
Biden ribs Yale football (and himself) at graduation speech: “One touchdown away from beating Harvard for the first time since 2006. So close to something you wanted for eight years. I can only imagine how you feel. I can only imagine. So close. So close.’’ (Politico)
Sunday night TV recaps: Mad Men’s last hurrah, Game of Thrones, Veep, and Silicon Valley.
The Goodbye:
Anschel Schaffer-Cohen smiles as he wears a stuffed lemur on his cap during the commencement ceremony for Tufts University’s class of 2015.
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