An Ohio man has received a second death sentence for the 1995 rape and murder of a 13-year-old Akron girl. Donald Craig had previously been sentenced to death for the 1996 murder of another young girl according to story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer by Karen Farkas.

The impact of illegal immigrants on crime was the subject of a Congressional subcommittee hearing in Houston yesterday. The five-hour hearing included testimony from crime victims and law enforcement officials as reported in the Houston Chronicle by Associated Press reporter Juan A. Lozano.

An ACLU lawsuit has "handcuffed" police efforts to control crime on skid row in Los Angeles, according to Chief William Bratton. The story in today's Los Angeles Times by Cara Mia DiMassa and Richard Winton reports that the Police Department's campaign to impliment a "broken windows" policy in the city's central district, which cracks down on low level crimes, has been frustrated by a Ninth Circuit ruling in Jones v. City of Los Angeles, No. 04-55324, on April 14 which halted police from arresting vagrants for sleeping or lying on sidewalks. The city's petition for rehearing is pending, and the court has referred the case to its mediation unit. Query: Is the enforceability of a law a proper subject for mediation?

Terrorist Wiretapping. A federal District Judge in Detriot has ruled that the government's warrantless wiretapping of suspected terrorists is unconstitutional according to a story by Associated Press reporter Sarah Karush.