Madeline Thigpen

1 day ago | atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Madeline Thigpen

Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill Tuesday that will transform how intellectual disability is handled in death penalty cases in Georgia. Now in alignment with 26 other states that still practice capital punishment, Georgia will require a judge to determine during a pretrial hearing whether a defendant is intellectually disabled or not. Prior to the signing of this bill, intellectual disability was determined by a jury while also considering the defendant’s guilt or innocence.

1 day ago | yahoo.com | Madeline Thigpen

Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill Tuesday that will transform how intellectual disability is handled in death penalty cases in Georgia. Now in alignment with 26 other states that still practice capital punishment, Georgia will require a judge to determine during a pretrial hearing whether a defendant is intellectually disabled or not. Prior to the signing of this bill, intellectual disability was determined by a jury while also considering the defendant’s guilt or innocence.

3 days ago | yahoo.com | Madeline Thigpen

While many Atlanta families were getting ready for church or preparing Mother’s Day brunch on Sunday, Jimmy Hill stood alone in protest outside one of Atlanta’s fastest-growing houses of worship, 2819 Church. Located in southwest Atlanta — and boasting 800,000 followers on YouTube and nearly half a million on Instagram — the church went viral last month when founder and lead pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell gave a sermon telling Black parents to stop blaming white cops for killing Black kids.

3 days ago | atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Madeline Thigpen

Fulton County commissioners voted on Wednesday to allocate additional funding to staff Sheriff Patrick Labat’s office, following a scathing November U.S. Department of Justice report that cited understaffing as a cause of rampant, unchecked violence at Fulton County Jail. Vice Chair Bob Ellis introduced the resolution, which will support the hiring and retention of new deputies and fund overtime pay for current deputies.

6 days ago | atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Madeline Thigpen

Jimmy Hill became visibly emotional on Monday as he watched retired Atlanta police officer Sung Kim testify for the first time in federal court about fatally shooting Hill’s son, Jimmy Atchison. Hill told Capital B Atlanta after the evidentiary hearing that he got caught up in the moment during Kim’s remarks, which he characterized as untrue. “It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s actions,” Hill said, quoting Indian independence leader Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi.