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Rolling Execution. The Gainsville Sun has coverage on the victims' families and on the demonstrators.

Canada Crime Leg. The Globe and Mail has this article on controversial crime legislation in Canada. The controversies include mandatory minimums and "three strikes."

Padilla Jury. The federal district court in Miami will begin jury selection for Jose Padilla with a pool of 3000, reports the AP.

Terrorist Habeas. Carol Leonnig and Julie Tate of the Washington Post have this article on the habeas petition of Ramzi Binalshibh, "an admitted al-Qaeda planner of the Sept. 11 attacks."

22nd Inmate Executed in Texas this year. Gregory Summers was executed yesterday in Texas and was pronounced dead at 10:16 p.m. E.D.T. Summers offered Andrew Cantu $10,000 to murder his parents and uncle in 1990 in an attempt to collect the life insurance. The AP story reports that Cantu was executed in 1999 for his role in the murder for hire plot.

Scheduled Execution in Alabama. Larry Eugene Hutcherson, 37, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection this evening at 6:00 p.m. C.D.T. In the process of buglarizing a mobile home in June of 1992, Hutcherson murdered 89-year-old Irma Thelma Gray. The medical examiner stated that the cut to Gray’s throat was so severe, she was nearly decapitated. Read the complete AP story here.

Lifeless Infant Found. A Funeral Home in Buffalo, New York, opened a package that was delivered yesterday to find a dead infant boy inside. According to the AP story a note was also found inside the package, but detectives are yet to reveal what was written on the note.

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