Convictions including the South Carolina church bomber in the Boston Marathon bomber. In the Boston Marathon case, massachusetts does not have a Death Penalty as a state. When the case was prosecuted federally in massachusetts the jury imposed the Death Penalty. Reporter Death Penalty sentences should be carried out said a crime victim advocate. Victims have to endure the loss of a loved one but then the entire criminal justice process. Reporter mina is president of the Advocacy Group crime victims united in auburn. She said she applauds the federal decision. To deny victims is completely horrendous. It takes away their voice and their right to seek justice. Reporter the Death Penalty has been controversial. There are a lot of problems with the penalty. People have been wrongfully convicted on death row. Reporter President Trump has spoken in favor of the death multi. Thursdays move as another divisive issue into the National Dialogue ahead of the 2020 president ial election. Many Dem
Celebrating Harriet Tubman. We get behind the wheel to sepa they would rather be killed. Reporter tubman bravely freeing a member of her own family. Hear from the remarkable woman. A yellow weather alert for tomorrow morning. Plan on wet commute, and dont freak out. Snow showers with your wet commute. Impacts . We think its a high impact for the welt morning commute. Not so much for the ride home. Low impact for the wet roads on the way home. Need an umbrella, especially if youre walking to the bus stop. Winds will pick up by evening, and windchill in the teens and 20s by 6 00 or 7 00 tomorrow night. 46 downtown, and 39 in frederick, and already a line of snow. Back to leesburg and winchester and martinsburg, and the 8 00 hour, approaching i95, and the good news, it was 75 degrees today, and temperat not sticking on the roads. Its e. If it snows hard enough, you may see enough accumulation on the mulch. Now we have snow down into southern maryland, Charles County into st. Marys county,
Your friday night. Looking at the weekend forecast in a few more minutes. Right now it is traffic time that means it is melissa mollets turn. It my turn to talk at benning road. We have the right side of the road blocked there because of a disabled vehicle in the left lane on 295 northbound there at nanny Helen Burroughs avenue, we also have slow downs there. Brand new crash there. We want to warn you if youre coming out of fredrick to the baltimore avenue. Noth crash there as well. 270 at clarks burg, northbound, southbound, looking good. Northbound yesterday around noon, lots of outlet shoppers were headed north and slowing things. Another new crash in maryland. Well talk about that in just a second. Just in to our newsroom, new numbers indicate donald trump has pulled within seven points of Hillary Clinton in virginia this according to the wason service that stands at 46 to 39 . Key findings include clintons lead among women and millennials and trumps strong lead over white voters a
From inside the mansion, and dna on five items match wint. It takes time to process all of those swabs. Time is what wints defense team said they needed, saying a trial date shouldnt be set because they need more time to retest the evidence. Dwayne stanton is a former homicide detective for the metropolitan police department. He says its true retesting the evidence will take time, but says its likely the defense team is using a stall have their own set of eyes to look at the evidence. But they could have asked for it already too. Nevertheless, the judge decided that a trial date wont be set until next year. And wint is not due back in court until february 3rd. Its possible at that point a trial date could be set. At 6 00, well tell you why experts say it could be years before we see a verdict in this case. Back to you. Thank you. All of the candidates on the campaign train. Donald trump getting ready to speak in maine right now. Hillary clinton is in iowa. But the big story today, an o
Vote for me and for those who dont. For all americans together. [ cheers and applause ] it was the biggest speech of her career on the biggest stage. Good evening. Im julie haener. And im frank somerville. Hillary clinton becomes the first woman ever to accept a major Party Nomination for president hammering away at Donald Trumps vision of america while also outlining what she hopes to achieve as president. Ktvus ross palombo is on the Convention Floor in philadelphia for this final night of the dnc. Ross, you saw history in the making firsthand tonight. It must have been something to see. Reporter well, there was so much energy here in the fortunate that more than an hour after her historic speech, take a look at this room out here, people are still milling about, going through the balloons and looking at all the signs and posters. Even signing their names on parts of the building out here. Hillary clinton tonight did something she has never done before in her 17year political history