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weapons counts
Coverage of weapons counts in the Nexus archive.
- Second Circuit reinstates racial hatred factors in Buffalo shooter’s death penalty trial
The Second Circuit reinstated racial hatred as an aggravating factor in the federal death penalty trial of Payton Gendron, who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket in 2022. The court rejected Gendron’s First Amendment defense, allowing jurors to consider racially motivated killings and attempts to incite violence.