Murder of Alabama Biology Dept. Chairman Shocks Community
Murder of Alabama Biology Dept. Chairman Shocks Community
By GREG HEFFERNAN
indiawest.com February 18, 2010 02:09:00 PM
The local Indian American community of about 1,000 families in Huntsville, Ala., is in a state of shock over the murder of 52-year-old University of Alabama biology department chairman Gopi Podila, one of six victims of an apparently disgruntled professor’s shooting spree Feb. 12 on campus.
Three university professors were shot and killed and another three people were wounded – two of them still in critical condition at press deadline – when Professor Amy Bishop, 42, apparently upset about a denial of tenure, opened fire at about 4 p.m. with a 9mm handgun at a biology department meeting at the Shelby Center, before being pushed outside the room.
The Harvard-educated Ph.D., a wife and mother of four, was later arrested by police and charged with the shootings.
Podila’s two daughters, Bindu, a junior in high school; and Anela, an eighth grader, are helping to console their mother, Vani, a researcher at CFD Research Corp. in Huntsville.
Family members are arriving from Canada and the U.S. and Podila’s brother is coming from India to attend the funeral, which is scheduled Feb. 19 at Berry Hills Funeral Home in Huntsville.
Podila had been teaching at the University of Alabama at Huntsville for 10 years. He came from Michigan Technological University in 2000 to accept the post of biology department chair. He was a graduate of Acharya Nagarjuna University in Andhra Pradesh.
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I did some googling and it
I did some googling and it seems that Dr. Bishop is quite the character.
In 1986, she blew her own brother's brains out and got off without even being charged.
In 1993, she was questioned in an attempted mail bombing of another professor where she was working at the time.
In 2002, she was again in trouble, this time for punching an IHOP patron in the face over a child’s booster seat, where she reportedly announced, “I am Dr. Amy Bishop!”
I am thinking that this woman is batshit crazy.
I really hope that Alabama has a system similar to what Connecticut uses for people who try an insanity defense. It is called the Psychiatric Security Review Board. Basically, if you go that route, you get the automatic maximum sentence that you could have had if you had taken your chance at a public trial. Then you get sent to a special facility (Whiting Forensic Institute), which is as much hospital as prison. You stay there as long as the PSRB feels that there is a medical need to keep you confined (medical definition being “Danger to self or others&rdquo
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Even if she did get let out many years from now, PSRB would pretty much own her ass for the full term of her sentence, which given three murders and three attempted murders, would be the rest of her days. They can pretty much impose any restrictions they want, including an ankle bracelet and a daily phone call/visit to a medical supervisor to make sure she is safe to be around other people.
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No need to even think about it, really...
It doesn't. Case-in-point: A woman who lives one lot from my Mother's house shot her husband and spent a minimum of one year in the puzzle factory. Many of this state's institutions are in a state of disrepair, as-of-late (doubly so with the current recession.) They're also run by losers (read:dumbass politicians) who intentionally sabotage them in the hope that the Fed Gov't will come a-galloping to the rescue, and then they hope to intentionally pass the blame on to the Federal Government once... the state's civil institutions are in a state of disrepair. Catch 22.
A jackson says this woman will be out of jail in under 10 years. ><
“A meritocratic society is one in which inequalities of wealth and social position solely reflect the unequal distribution of merit or skills amongst human beings, or are based upon factors beyond human control, for example luck or chance. Such a society is socially just because individuals are judged not by their gender, the colour of their skin or their religion, but according to their talents and willingness to work, or on what Martin Luther King called 'the content of their character'. By extension, social equality is unjust because it treats unequal individuals equally.” "Political Ideologies" by Andrew Heywood (2003)