"Performance Art". "The Black Repertory Group will re-enact the execution of Crips co-founder and murderer Stanley Tookie Williams to mark the one-year anniversary of the former gang leader's death by lethal injection," reports Kim Curtis of AP. An eyewitness account of the execution from last year by John Simerman of the Contra Costa Times is here.

Corp. Crim. U.Chi. Prof. Richard Epstein has this article in the Wall Street Journal (subscription) on "The Deferred Prosecution Racket." The Heritage Foundation is having an event Thursday on "The Future of the Attorney-Client Relationship in White-Collar Prosecutions."

Victimization. The Gallup Poll has its own version of the National Crime Victimization Survey here (free today only). This survey comes out faster than the government's stats, but differences in methodology make them not directly comparable. There is not much change from the year before.

Jessica's Law A federal judge has extended the TRO on the sex offender residency restriction in California's Proposition 83, as the Attorney General's position regarding its retroactive application evolves. A story by Bob Egelko from today's San Francisco Chronicle provides the details.

Death Penalty The execution this Friday of a South Carolina murderer Guy LeGrande, whose mental status is in question, has been delayed for 60 days to allow a psychiatric evaluation according to a story by Emily Achenbaum in the Charlotte Observer. LeGrande murdered a 26-year-old mother of two with a shotgun in 1993. He was hired to kill the woman by her estranged husband.