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Rolling. Danny Rolling was executed in Florida 16 years after he murdered five college students, the AP reports. Justices Stevens and Breyer dissented from the Supreme Court's order denying a stay.

Cal AG Race. There will be no court decision on whether Jerry Brown is legally qualified to be Attorney General of California until after the election, according to the Sacramento Bee.

Guns Down Under. Don Weatherburn, director of the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, has this article in the Sydney Morning Herald on a study showing that a gun buy-back program had no impact on the homicide rate.

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