This killer would still be alive if gasoline had been banned years ago. Carl Blue Executed: Killer Gets Lethal Injection Page last updated 01:42AM Friday February 22, 2013 A man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend by dousing her with gasoline and settingher on fire has been executed in Texas. Carl Blue, 48, was convicted of the September 1994 death of Carmen Richards-Sanders, 38, at her apartment in Bryan, about 100 miles northwest of Houston. Blue also tossed gasoline on a man in the apartment, but he survived and testified against Blue, who claimed the attack was a prank gone wrong. In his final statements, he greeted the victim's daughter, Terrella Richards, as she entered the death chamber viewing area by telling her he loved her. "I never meant to hurt your mama," Blue said while strapped to a gurney in the state's death chamber. "If I could change that, I would. ... I forgive you. I hope you can forgive me." He also told his paren...

Three Siblings With Throats Slit: Mother Held Page last updated 06:55AM Saturday February 23, 2013 Police have arrested the mother of three children who were found with their throats slit at their home near Paris. She was held in the French capital after a police hunt for her was launched following the discovery of the siblings, aged nine, 11 and 17. Their father, who is a doctor, raised the alarm after returning home in the morning from work, police and judicial sources said. The authorities said: "The children had their throats slit but we are still awaiting forensic reports." The bodies of the nine-year-old girl and her 11-year-old brother showed multiple stab wounds. When the emergency services arrived the eldest brother was still alive but he later died of his injuries. The killings took place in the suburban town of Dampmart, 30km (19 miles) east of Paris, in the Seine-et-Marne region. The father was found in a state of shock. The couple were having...

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FIREARMSPOLICY.ORG 9 Hours Ago Right to Carry News: 7th Circuit Lets Posner Ruling Stand; Huge Win for CCW, Says SAF Earlier today, the Second Amendment Foundation published this press release on the federal 7th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to let Judge Posner’s recent decision on Second Amendment rights outside the home (overturning Illinois’ total ban on carry) stand: For Immediate Release: 2/22/2013 BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today won a significant victory for concealed carry when the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals let stand a December ruling by a three-judge panel of the court that forces Illinois to adopt a concealed carry law, thus affirming that the right to bear arms exists outside the home. The ruling came in Moore v. Madigan, a case filed by SAF. The December opinion that now stands was written by Judge Richard Posner, who gave the Illinois legislature 180 days to “craft a new gun law that will impose reasonable limitations, consistent wit...