Shooting & Shutting

Barr drafts new death penalty law as Texas copes with latest mass shooting

Attorney general seeks to speed up process in aftermath of rampage that left seven people dead

A car with a broken window is seen at a grocery store parking lot following Saturday’s shooting in Odessa, Texas. Photograph: Callaghan O’Hare/Reuters

In the wake of a west Texas shooting rampage that killed seven people at the weekend, it has been revealed that the US attorney general, William Barr, has been drafting legislation to speed up the process leading to the death penalty in federal cases for people who commit such mass murder, officials said on Monday.

Teams from the Federal Bureau of Investigation search a home in a rural residential area in west Odessa.Photograph: Joel Angel Juarez/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock

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shut

  (shŭt)

v. shut, shut·ting, shuts

v.tr.

1.

a. To move (a door or lid, for example) so as to block passage through an opening.

b. To fasten with a lock, catch, or latch: shut the cabinet.

2. To block entrance to or exit from; close: shut a corridor.

3. To confine in a closed space: shut them in a cage.

4. To exclude from a closed space: shut the cats out of the house.

5. To fold up or bring together the parts of: shut the book.

6. To cause to stop operating: shut down a restaurant; a school that was shut for the vacation.

v.intr.

1. To move or become moved so as to block passage; close: a door that shuts by itself.

2. To stop operating, especially automatically: The electricity shuts off at midnight.

n.

1. The act or time of shutting.

2. The line of connection between welded pieces of metal.

Phrasal Verbs:

shut off

1. To stop the flow or passage of; cut off: shut off the hot water by closing a valve.

2. To close off; isolate: loners who shut themselves off from the community.

shut out Sports

To prevent (an opponent) from scoring any runs or points.

shut up

1. To cause (someone) to stop speaking; silence.

2. To stop speaking.

Idiom:

shut (one's) eyes to

To refuse to consider or acknowledge: administrators who shut their eyes to pervasive corruption.

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