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NATION/WORLD
1 dead, 2 injured as storms, tornadoes hit South
ADAM ROBISON I Associated Press
David Hassen and Hugh Foster, with Servicemaster in Tupelo,
Miss., work on cleaning up debris in the residents rooms at
Generations Senior Living, Tuesday morning, Nov. 6.
Associated Press
CHRISTIANA, Tenn. —
Severe storms sweeping
across the South with tor
nadoes on Tuesday killed a
person and injured at least
two others, knocking down
trees and leaving thousands
without power, officials
said. The weather disrupted
Election Day voting in some
places, forcing citizens to
use paper ballots instead of
electronic voting machines.
In Tennessee, crews
responded to a collapsed
home where one person was
confirmed dead, Rutherford
County Emergency Medical
Services spokesman Patrick
Miller told news outlets.
Two others were injured
when a nearby mobile home
rolled over, he said.
An EF-2 tornado with
winds of about 135 mph
hit the area, the National
Weather Service said after
surveying the damage. At
least three other twisters
were confirmed, two in Ala
bama and another in Ten
nessee, the agency said, and
teams were still assessing
others sites.
The Storm Predic
tion Center said nine pos
sible tornado strikes were
reported.
Tennessee Coordinator
of Elections Mark Goins
said the polling places that
had electricity knocked out
are operating on generators
and have emergency ballots
ready for voters. He said
the paper ballots would be
counted Tuesday. He said
the largest area of power
outages was in Knox County,
where nearly 20,000 cus
tomers were without power
Tuesday morning.
In West Virginia, storms
caused two voting precincts
to open a little late but didn’t
cause any lasting problems.
West Virginia Secre
tary of State’s spokesman
Michael Queen said 14 pre
cincts were without power
at 5 a.m., but the office
worked with state and local
agencies to put generators
into place or move precinct
locations. Polling places
without power used gen
erators until electricity was
restored so no paper ballots
were necessary, he said.
Crews worked to restore
power to thousands of resi
dents from Louisiana to
South Carolina.
Parts of Tupelo, Missis
sippi, were closed off late
Monday as debris, downed
trees blocked roadways, the
Northeast Mississippi Daily
Journal reported . Tupelo
Communications Director
Leesha Faulkner said there
also was a gas leak in a resi
dential area.
In Rutherford County,
Fire and Rescue spokes
woman Lisa Sloan said
crews responded to a house
blaze early Tuesday that
appeared to have started
from a lightning strike. She
said there was heavy dam
age, but no injuries.
Death penalty case
hangs on Kavanaugh
BY JESSICA GRESK0
Associated Press
Iran mocks US sanctions list
WASHINGTON - Hearing his
first arguments in a death penalty
case, Supreme Court Justice Brett
Kavanaugh seemed open Tuesday to
the arguments of a Missouri inmate
who says his rare medical condition
could result in severe pain if he is
executed by lethal injection.
The court’s newest jus
tice could hold the key vote
in Russell Bucklew’s case.
That’s because his eight col
leagues split 4 to 4 earlier
this year over whether to
allow Bucklew’s execution
to proceed. Justice Anthony
Kennedy provided the fifth
vote to spare Bucklew.
Bucklew, on death row
for a 1996 murder, has said a tumor
in his throat is likely to burst during
the lethal injection, causing him to
choke on his blood. Bucklew argues
that subjecting him to lethal injection
would violate the Constitution’s ban
on cruel and unusual punishment.
Among the questions Kavana
ugh wanted answered was whether
Bucklew would be lying flat dur
ing the execution, which Bucklew’s
attorneys have said would be prob
lematic. Kavanaugh, who heard no
death penalty cases in his 12 years
as an appeals court judge, also asked
whether there’s any legal limit on
pain associated with an execution.
The justice also aimed all his ques
tions at the lawyer representing
Missouri, which can be a sign at
the Supreme Court that a justice is
inclined to vote for the other side.
“Are you saying even if the
method creates gruesome and bru
tal pain you can still do it because
there’s no alternative?” Kavanaugh
at one point asked Missouri’s attor
ney, D. John Sauer.
Bucklew is up against
Supreme Court precedent.
The court has previously
ruled that inmates challeng
ing a method of execution
have to show that there’s
an alternative that is likely
to be less painful. Bucklew
has proposed that Missouri
execute him by having him
breathe pure nitrogen gas through
a mask instead of by injecting him
with a lethal dose of pentobarbital.
Bucklew says he would feel like
he’s suffocating for several minutes
during a lethal injection. But if the
state uses nitrogen, he’d become
unconscious within 20 to 30 seconds.
Missouri says no state has ever
carried out an execution as Buck-
lew suggests, calling his proposal
vague and untested. And the state
says Bucklew would not suffer
severe pain during a lethal injection
because pentobarbital would make
him unconscious in 20 to 30 seconds.
BY NASSER KARIMI
AND JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press
TEHRAN — The “largest-
ever” U.S. sanctions list targeting
Iran drew mockery from Iranian
officials on Tuesday for including
mothballed Boeing 747s, a bank
that closed years earlier and a
sunken oil tanker that exploded
off China months ago.
However, the new list of sanc
tions, which also aims to cut Iran’s
vital oil industry off from interna
tional sales, also included for the
first time its state airline and its
atomic energy commission, fur
ther highlighting the maximalist
approach of President Donald
Trump’s administration.
Trump pulled America out
of the 2015 nuclear deal Iran
struck with world powers in May.
United Nations monitors say Iran
still abides by the deal, in which
it agreed to limit its uranium
enrichment in return for the lift
ing of international sanctions.
The U.S. Treasury Department
imposed penalties on more than
700 Iranian and Iranian-linked
individuals, entities, aircraft
and vessels in the new sanctions.
Among those are 50 Iranian
banks and subsidiaries, and more
than 200 people and ships.
However, scattered among the
list are surprising entries, like the
crude oil tanker Sanchi. That ves
sel collided with a bulk freighter
and caught fire off China’s east
coast in January, killing all 32
sailors aboard.
Another entry was Iran’s Tat
Bank, which closed in 2012.
Foreign Minister Mohammed
Javad Zarif took to Twitter to
mock some of the targets of the
sanctions, describing it as a “des
perate” psychological ploy.
“The U.S. designated a bank
that was closed 6 years ago, and
a ship that sank. in a widely tele
vised saga,” he wrote, ending the
tweet with “#USisIsolated.”
But for the first time, the
United States targeted
Iran Air. It also sanc
tioned the state carrier’s
fleet of Boeing 747s,
manufactured in the
1970s.
It also appeared that
the U.S., in another first,
was directly sanctioning
the Atomic Energy Orga
nization of Iran, the gov
ernment agency that oversees
Iran’s nuclear program. Prior
sanctions targeted specific sub
sidiaries of the organization.
Eshaq Jahangiri, President
Hassan Rouhani’s senior vice
president, also criticized the
sanctions.
“Americans think their list is
more effective if it is longer,”
Jahangiri said, according to the
IRNA news agency. He said he
had discussed the list with other
officials, with many saying it was
“less than what we expected.”
Still, Jahangiri warned that
“Americans intend to damage
economy of the country” through
psychological warfare.
Zarif later issued an online
video criticizing America’s
“indiscriminate assault” on his
country.
“The U.S. administration
appears to believe that imposing
illegal draconian sanctions on
Iran will bring about such pain to
our nation that it will force us to
submit to its will, no matter how
absurd, unlawful or fundamen
tally flawed its demands are. ”
Iran is already in the
grip of an economic cri
sis. Its national currency,
the rial, now trades at
150,000 to one U.S. dol
lar; a year ago, it was
about 40,500. The eco
nomic chaos sparked
mass anti-government
protests at the end of
last year, resulting in
nearly 5,000 arrests and at least
25 deaths.
Sporadic smaller demonstra
tions still reportedly erupt from
time to time.
The new sanctions particu
larly hurt Iran’s vital oil industry,
which provides a source of hard
currency. Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo said the sanctions
already cost Iran sales of over 1
million barrels of crude oil a day.
Analysts feared in the run-up
to the sanctions that global oil
prices could spike on tight supply
and increasing demand.
Bucklew
Zarif
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