The California hearings on lethal injection continued yesterday as opponents presented a second day of testimony from medical experts who said errors by prison staff could have caused condemned murderers to die in agony according to a Associated Press story by David Kravets.

A poll of likely voters in Wisconsin indicates that 57% will vote to support a statewide referendum this November urging lawmakers to reinstate the death penalty for some murderers. The state has not had a death penalty since 1853 as reported in an Associated Press story in the Duluth News Tribune.

The Colorado man who held two schoolgirls hostage before murdering one and committing suicide yesterday has been identified as a 53-year-old loner who had been living out of his car, according to a story in this morning's Denver Post by reporter Kirk Mitchell. The victim, 16-year-old Emily Keyes died in a Denver hospital shortly after police stormed the school, as reported in the Guardian Unlimited.