Judge allows prison to drug Arizona shooting suspect as details emerge on fragile mental state
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 28th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
Judge allows prison to drug Arizona shooting suspect as details emerge on fragile mental state
SAN DIEGO — The man accused in the Arizona shooting rampage kept himself awake for 50 hours straight after an appeals court stopped forced medication. He walked in circles until he developed sores and then declined antibiotics to treat an infected foot. Already thin, he stopped eating and shed nine pounds.
U.S. District Judge Larry Burns described Jared Lee Loughner’s behavior to explain his refusal to overrule prison doctors who decided to resume forced medication July 18. The drugging, he said, “seems entirely appropriate and reasonable to me.”
IMF’s Lagarde: View is growing that policymakers can’t make tough choices
JACKSON, Wyo. — The world economic recovery is in new peril of derailing, the head of the International Monetary Fund said Saturday as she called on leaders in the United States and Europe to take aggressive and immediate action to address new cracks appearing in the global economy.
The global economy is in a “dangerous new phase,” said Christine Lagarde, the IMF managing director, speaking at a conference of top central bankers and economists. The world is endangered by “a growing sense that policymakers do not have the conviction, or simply are not willing, to take the decisions that are needed.”
Hurricane Irene: FEMA, federal agencies ramp up
Updated 9:57 p.m. ET
With Hurricane Irene pummeling the East Coast on Saturday, at least nine states are seeking federal disaster assistance in anticipation of major flooding and wind damage.
President Obama has signed emergency declarations for New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Rhode Island and New Hampshire after declaring similar emergencies in North Carolina and Puerto Rico earlier in the week.