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CONVICTED. CHRISTOPHER PITTMAN, 15, teenager who claimed taking the antidepressant Zoloft led him to shoot his grandparents in their bed in 2001; on two counts of murder; in Charleston, S.C. Though jurors rejected the Zoloft defense, they agonized over trying Pittman, who was 12 when he committed the crime, as an adult. He was sentenced to the minimum term of 30 years in prison...
...Jaafari has previously been sharply critical of U.S. military actions in Iraq, particularly during last August's confrontation in Najaf with followers of rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr. He has also spoken of drawing representatives of the Sadr movement into government - even Chalabi is making a promise to drop murder charges against Sadr part of his campaign pitch for the job of Prime Minister...
...Hariri’s] murder is an attempt to stifle these efforts to build an independent, sovereign Lebanon free of foreign domination,” McClellan said, adding that the United States will look into measures “to punish those responsible for this terrorist attack” and to free Lebanon from “foreign occupation...
...children? The recent trial of Christopher Pittman, who as a twelve year-old boy killed his grandparents and set their house on fire, raises difficult questions about the role of antidepressants in a society that increasingly sees children as being overmedicated. Yesterday, the jury found Pittman guilty of murder and sentenced him to 30 years in prison. While the defense tried to argue that the drugs caused him to become “intoxicated” and act in a way he otherwise never would have, the jury rejected this notion and sided with the prosecution’s argument...
...major side effects that last even when the child is an adult. But, is it any better to place kids on antidepressants that have never been sufficiently tested on maturing minds and bodies? There was certainly not enough evidence to prove that Zoloft caused Christopher Pittman to commit murder, as antidepressants have so far been related to suicidal ideation and not violence. This absence of the link between antidepressants and violence no doubt contributed to the jury’s guilty verdict. But because of the lack of clinical trials demonstrating their effects on children, it is also not necessarily...