Alaska man arrested over death threats made to supreme court justices

Panos Anastasiou allegedly sent hundreds of graphic threatening messages to the court due to decisions he disagreed with

A man from Alaska has been arrested and accused of threatening to kill six of the nine US supreme court justices and some of their family members, authorities have said - as a judge in Kentucky was shot dead on Thursday amid rising concerns about violence against public officials.

Panos Anastasiou, 76, has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly sending more than 465 messages to the supreme court through a public court website. The messages contained graphic threats of assassination and torture, along with racist and homophobic rhetoric, according to the justice department.