CSI: Backlog. Stateline.org has this story on backlogs in state crime labs, noting that overemphasis on DNA can aggravate backlogs on other kinds of forensic evidence.

First execution in South Dakota in 59 years to take place tomorrow evening. 24-year-old Elijah Page is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection tomorrow in South Dakota. After planning on stealing from him, Page and two accomplices tortured and murdered Chester Allan Poage. Page and Briley Piper were sentenced to death and Darrell Hoadley was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. The AP story reports that because Elijah Page chose to be executed, he has up until the last minute to change his mind and continue his appeals.