AP Photo - Customers walk through the Jackson, Miss., gas station/convenience store Oct. 15, 2008, where on Aug. 17, James Hawthorne was shot and killed by a store clerk who believed Mississippi's so-called castle doctrine gave him the legal right to use deadly force to recover a case of beer pilfered from his cooler. Police and prosecutors don't agree and the case will go before the grand jury.
AP Photo - A vehicle pulls out of this Jackson, Miss., gas station/convenience store Oct. 15, 2008, where on Aug. 17, James Hawthorne was shot and killed by a store clerk who believed Mississippi's so-called castle doctrine gave him the legal right to use deadly force to recover a case of beer pilfered from his cooler. Police and prosecutors don't agree and the case will go before the grand jury.
AP Photo - Surinder Singh, president of the Jackson Indian Storeowners Association, and stands inside his enclosed register, Oct. 9, 2008, at his Jackson, Miss., gas station/convenience store, says the state's castle doctrine law is clear: it gives you the right to protect your property. Singh, serves as a spokesman for Sarbrinder Pannu, who believed Mississippi's so-called castle doctrine gave him the legal right to use deadly force to recover a case of beer pilfered from the cooler, at his store. Police and prosecutors don't agree and charged him with murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle from a robbery-shooting incident Aug. 17. The case will go before the grand jury.
AP Photo - In this Thursday, June 19, 2008 file photo, William Sabo Jr., left, and Dave Grisi, inspectors with the state Office of Weights and Measures, inspect a gas pump at a station in West Orange, N.J. A reader-submitted question about gas pump inspection is being answered as part of an Associated Press Q&A column called "Ask AP".
AP Photo - In this Friday, June 13, 2008 file photo, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., shakes hands after speaking at the Oakleaf Village retirement community in Columbus, Ohio. A reader-submitted question about Obama's tax plan for retired people is being answered as part of an Associated Press Q&A column called "Ask AP".
AP Photo - In this Oct. 16, 2008 file photo, a Citibank ATM is shown in New York. A reader-submitted question about the mortgage industry bailout is being answered as part of an Associated Press Q&A column called "Ask AP".
AP Photo - Delta Theta Sigma fraternity brothers hunt for deer together on Penn State University farm land in State College, Pa., Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008. The Delta Theta Sigma fraternity is geared toward students interested in agriculture careers, many of them avid hunters from growing up in small towns and rural areas. They'll try to go out every chance they get. But rifle deer season is extra special. The season opens the Monday after Thanksgiving and runs through Dec. 13 in most areas of the state.
AP Photo - Delta Theta Sigma fraternity member Ryan Bostdorf hunts for deer on Penn State University land in State College, Pa., Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008. The Delta Theta Sigma fraternity is geared toward students interested in agriculture careers, many of them avid hunters from growing up in small towns and rural areas. They'll try to go out every chance they get. But rifle deer season is extra special. The season opens the Monday after Thanksgiving and runs through Dec. 13 in most areas of the state.