Ohio Murderer May Finally Face Execution Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Maggi Martin writes that, after 21 years of appeals, double-murderer Richard Cooey may soon receive his sentence. Cooey was sentenced to die on December 1986 for the rape and murder of two waitresses, Wendy Offredo, 21 and Dawn McCreey, 20. Cooey had disabled the victim's car by hitting it with a rock thrown from an overpass. Minutes later he pulled up in his car and offered to take the girls for help. He drove them to a remote area where he raped and strangled them. The most recent delay in Cooey's case was an Eighth Amendment challenge to the state's lethal injection process. With that issue settled, the state attorney is asking the Ohio Supreme Court for an execution date.

Is European Law Enforcement Biased Against Muslims? A Washington Post story by Molly Moore reports that while only 3 percent of all Briton's are Muslim, they make up 11 percent of its prison inmates. In the Netherlands 20 percent of adult inmates and 26 percent of juvenile inmates are Muslims although only 5.5 of the population share that faith. It gets worse, 2% of those living in Belgium are Muslim but they represent 16% of the prison inmates. France beats them all with Muslims making up 12% of the population but an estimated 60-70% of all inmates. Sociologists opine that this represents a failure to integrate Muslim immigrants. But maybe it's a cultural problem. Maybe some immigrants don't want to integrate. Hummm.