Rudy Giuliani endorsed appointment of "strict constructionists" as judges at a Richmond fund-raiser, Bob Lewis reports for AP.

Trailers are the solution for housing motel-dwelling sex offenders in Long Island according to an AP story by Frank Eltman. The trailers are $85 and include a bed and bathroom. Security will monitor offenders in the trailers from 8 p.m. to 7:30 a.m.

Kansas is considering abolishing the death penalty, according to a story by Ron Sylvester of the Wichita Eagle. A bill in the Senate and one in the House "would eliminate the option of the death penalty for juries but wouldn't keep the state from carrying out executions for people already sentenced to death." The article also discusses a recent poll on the death penalty's application and other options like long sentences without parole. The poll was commissioned by the Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty. The exact wording of the questions is not given in the story. The story also discusses the case of Gavin Scott, who wants the Kansas Supreme Court to abolish the death penalty again following its reversal by the U. S. Supreme Court, but this time on state constitutional grounds.

Convicted Murderer Angel Reyes (61), of Philadelphia may face the death penalty once again for the murder of his 4-year-old daughter Marcia in 1993. The sentencing trial will begin March 12. The death penalty was overturned in his case six years ago due to "mitigating factors [that] should have been presented...during the penalty phase." The aggravating circumstance of murder of a child makes capital punishment a possibility again in his sentencing, as reported by Marlene DiGiacomo of Delco Times (PA).

Televised trial of record producer Phil Spector for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson was announced by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fiddler on Friday. The AP story by Linda Deutsch explained that the judge thinks "public scrutiny is a good thing" and it will show how celebrities are not treated differently in court.

Cold Hit: A jury returned a death verdict for the rape and murder of 8-year-old Cannie Bullock of San Pablo, CA in 1979, the AP reports. Joseph Cordova was linked to the crime by DNA in 2002. He was in the database because he was convicted of child molestation in Colorado. The verdict is largely symbolic, as no one involved in the case expects the now-62 Cordova to be executed before he dies of natural causes.

"In a crime prosecutors say showed 'exceptional depravity,' two San Francisco women stand accused of dousing a longtime homeless woman with gasoline and burning her alive in an apparent witness retaliation slaying." The story of the life and death of Leslie "Jill" May is reported by Jaxon Van Derbeken and Heather Knight of the SF Chronicle. The SF DA never seeks the death penalty.