Ohio execution: The last minute attempts of Ohio murderer James Filiaggi to stop his execution have been rejected by the Ohio Supreme Court and the Federal District Court, reports Reginald Fields of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Convicted Sex Offender Kenneth Glenn Hinson was found not guilty in the dungeon rapes of two teenaged girls by a South Carolina jury. Hinson allegedly snatched both girls from their bedroom, put them in an underground room where he raped them, and then left them to die. However, Hinson claims that the sex was consensual and that the girls lied to get marijuana that was stored there. An AP story by Meg Kinnard reports that Hinson remains in custody on a federal firearm charge.

Death Row inmate Kenneth Eugene Foster of San Antonio lost his appeal to the Supreme Court to review the reversal of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decision which reinstated his death sentence. After being convicted of capital murder, a federal district judge accepted Foster's claim that the jury may have improperly sentenced him because he did not play a major role in the murder. Foster, a member of the Hoover 94 Crips street gang, was the driver in an all night robbery-shooting spree which resulted in the death of a 25-year-old man. AP writer Michael Graczyk reports that there is no date yet scheduled for Foster's execution.