Looking Forward To 2016: Criminal Justice
A police officer stands near the scene of an officer-involved shooting, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, in downtown Atlanta, that left one person dead after an officer attempted to stop a vehicle on Monday.
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As we look toward 2016, WABE’s news staff is gearing up to cover the stories expected to make headlines — and airtime — this year.
Reporter Elly Yu will continue her coverage of Georgia’s death penalty.
“There are several inmates who have had their appeals exhausted,” Yu says. “So it’s likely the state will schedule more executions in the coming year.”
Georgia executed five people in 2015.
Reporter Lisa Hagen says she will be keeping up with officer-involved shootings:
“Something I am going to be keeping an eye on in the next year is two cases that the DeKalb County District Attorney has said he’s interested in looking into: the officer involved shootings of Kevin Davis and Anthony Hill.”
We will check in with WABE reporters and producers in the coming days on education, the environment and other big topics coming up in 2016.
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