Execution Delay Arizona murderer Jeffery Landrigan, whose death sentence was reinstated by the Supreme Court last May, has won a delay from the Arizona Supreme Court as reported by Arizona Republic reporter Michael Kiefer. In 1989, Landrigan escaped from an Oklahoma prison where he was serving time for another murder, when he robbed and murdered a man in Phoenix. The Arizona Court is awaiting the Supreme Court's decision on the Constitutionality of lethal injection in Baze v. Rees.

Homeless people can sleep on sidewalks at night as part of a deal worked out between the City of Los Angeles and the ACLU according to this Associated Press story. ACLU leader Ramona Ripston has agreed to let the police move vagrants off the sidewalks during the day after the city builds 1,250 housing units for them. It comes as no surprise that while the number of homeless has dropped in Los Angeles County, it has increased downtown as reported by Susannah Rosenblatt in this morning's LA Times. The National Center for Policy Analysis reports that Los Angeles remains the homeless capital of the U.S.