BREAKING NEWS ~ Three members of Iraq constitution committee gunned down News
BREAKING NEWS ~ Three members of Iraq constitution committee gunned down

[JURIST] Reuters is reporting that three members of the committee drafting a new constitution in Iraq were shot and killed outside a Baghdad restaurant Tuesday. Sources say that the men were three of the fifteen Sunni members who recently joined the committee to increase Sunni involvement in the process. Reuters has more.

10:48 AM ET – The Washington Post is reporting that there are conflicting reports about whether all three men killed were members of Iraq's constitution committee. Members of the committee are trying to reach each other by phone to make the determination.

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Georgia became first US state to ban lynching

On December 20, 1893, Georgia became the first state in the Union to pass a law against lynching, making the act punishable by four years in prison. The statute was not particularly effective—read the text of the 1899 pamphlet Lynch Law in Georgia by anti-lynching activist Ida Wells-Barnett.