San Francisco was the scene of a protest Sunday by supporters of eight former Black Liberation Army members charged with the 1971 shotgun murder of a police sergeant and the wounding of a civilian clerk. An Associated Press story by Marcus Wohlsen reports that forensic analysis of shotgun shells used when the militants stormed the police station and a fingerprint recovered at the scene, led police to the suspects. The protesters claim that the arrests are part of an on-going police vendetta against black liberation groups.

The Victim's side of a gruesome murder case is presented in a story in Sunday's Cincinnati Enquirer by Sharon Coolidge & Jon Craig. Earlier this month, twelve days after taking office, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland ordered a temporary reprieve for two murderers scheduled for execution next month. Darryl Gumm and Michael Bies were sentenced to death for the 1992 kidnap and brutal murder of 10-year-old Aaron Raines. After the Surpeme Court's decision in Atkins v. Virginia, the pair joined an estimated 39 other Ohio murderers to claim that they are mentally retarded. Governor Strickland, a former prison psychologist, says he has "serious questions" about capital punishment and plans to hold new clemency hearings for the murderers.

Serial child molester Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller was sentenced to "150 years to life," the AP reports. "Judge Edward Lee said that despite Schwartzmiller's legal savvy in getting some previous charges dismissed, he will spend the rest of his days filing appeals from a prison cell."