AZ Shooting Suspect Agrees To Plead Guilty

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Jared Lee Loughner on Tuesday agreed to plead guilty to killing 6 people and wounding 13 others, including former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in Arizona on Jan. 8, 2011, the AP reports:

Loughner’s plea spares him the death penalty and came soon after a federal judge found that months of forcibly medicating him to treat his schizophrenia had made the 23-year-old college dropout competent.

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