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Biracial mass murderer George Emil Banks "too psychotic for execution" - (Newsroom) - (crime)
  ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A judge has ruled that a former prison guard convicted of killing 13 people in a 1982 shooting rampage can't be executed because he is mentally ill. The U.S. Supreme Court held in 1986 that it is unconstitutional to execute the insane. Banks picked up his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle on September 25, 1982, and began shooting. He killed seven children -- five of them his own, along with his three live-in girlfriends,
an ex-girlfriend, her mother and a bystander in the street.
Death-row inmate George Emil Banks thinks he's been pardoned by God and is no longer facing execution. He believes that his lawyers, psychiatrists and prison staff are joined in a wide-ranging conspiracy to get him to renounce God. He thinks that his itchy body rash was the work of flesh-eating demons. And he has blamed his continued incarceration on the "Islamic government of the United States."
The testimony painted a grim portrait of Banks as a psychotic and delusional prisoner whose mental state has deteriorated since his 1983 trial for the shooting rampage that left 13 people dead, including five of his children, in and around Wilkes-Barre in Luzerne County.
The son of a white mother and a black father, Banks said he wanted to spare his biracial children the prejudice he had suffered
Living in a predominately white neighborhood and being involved in a series of interracial relationships
brought its own share of problems. Banks claimed that his white neighbors “intimidated the women and called the children African niggers.”
"A Tormented Mind Snaps"
 Lacking explanation or any apparent compassion, he raised the weapon and shot Regina Clemens. The bullet pierced her right cheek, sliced downward and traveled directly through her heart, killing her instantly. Her body pitched sideways in a lifeless sprawl.
Susan and Dorothy, frozen with fear, watched in horror as George stood there. He shot Susan five times in the chest at point blank range as her cries for mercy fell upon deaf ears. A single bullet entered Mauritania’s left ear and exited her right eye as her mother Susan had tried in vain to safeguard her from the hail of bullets. Dorothy must have known that she was to be next for she shielded her face with her right arm as George fired two more rounds. The first bullet pierced her arm and chest; the second entered her neck as she fell forward to the floor, her eyes open but glazed with the unmistakable luster of death.
Bowendy’s young face turned away from his father when a single shot rang out; the bullet traveled through his left cheek and exited his right ear, virtually turning his face inside out. The AR-15 fell abruptly silent as George stood amidst the carnage he had inflicted upon his family. Spent cartridges littered the floor and the smell of gunpowder and death permeated the air. His taste for blood had yet to be quenched. He was a man on a deadly mission, and there was still much to do. He made his way up the stairs towards his children’s bedrooms... - (Black-on-White)
 Keith watched in horror through the partly opened closet door as seven-year-old Scott Mazzillo ran into the room and screamed. When Scott saw the horrible scene in the bedroom, he ran down the hall. George grabbed him, kicked him to the ground and punched him repeatedly in the back. When he stopped struggling, George pulled the sobbing boy up by the shoulder, placed the barrel just behind the left ear and fired. George removed his hand and allowed the lifeless child to fall on the floor. Satisfied that he had left no survivors, George stood up, walked out the front door and yelled, “I killed them all!” before fleeing the scene.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- An FBI informant was heard repeatedly encouraging a terror suspect to attend an al-Qaida training camp in secretly recorded conversations read to jurors Tuesday.
The conversations raised questions about whether 23-year-old 
IRVINE, Calif. — A student panel discussion Tuesday on Islamic extremism that included a display of Prophet Muhammad cartoons drew protesters outside the auditorium and descended into name-calling inside. At one point, University of California at Irvine police removed two men from the audience after they nearly came to blows. Although there were numerous heated exchanges, there were no reports of violence and no arrests were made. The panel, which included one Muslim speaker, was repeatedly interrupted by people who challenged assertions by the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of the conservative 
Ohio -- A 54-year-old man has been arrested on charges that he had sex with a child about four dozen times over a three-year period. Roger L. Burkhart has been charged with 48 counts of gross sexual imposition. 
A woman was shot and killed in the balcony of Zion Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit during a worship service Sunday, destroying the feeling of sanctuary as churchgoers panicked and crawled under pews in fear. Kevin L. Collins, 22, of Detroit walked into the 11 a.m. service looking for his girlfriend, police said. Instead, he saw her mother, 
He will undoubtedly be remembered as the most despicable and despised President in this nation’s history for the wounds he has inflicted on us. Before Bush passes the torch back to the Clintons and leaves the country–my guess is to Paraguay–he will engineer the ultimate destruction of the American civilization--our culture, economy and government. More thorough than anything Hitler did to Germany. At the very least Bush will certainly see to it that Caucasian America can no longer defend itself. Hillary will simply put the bullet in the base of our skull.
