A new Alabama law, which went into effect last Friday, requires an identifying mark on the driver's licenses of convicted sex offenders, according to an Associated Press story in the Decatur Daily.

More fallout from the decision by South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds to halt the execution of torture- murderer Elijah Page last Tuesday. While Round's said he acted to prevent a conflict between the state law which specifies a two-drug execution and the department of correction's three drug procedure, an Associated Press report in today's Sioux City Journal indicates that Oklahoma has executed 83 murderers since 1990 with no legal problems although the same discrepancy exists between state law and actual practice.