Mexico, as noted earlier, is rethinking its 2005 decision to abolish the death penalty. A poll reported today by Canadian pollster Angus Reid Global Monitor found that 68% of Mexicans support the death penalty for rape, 64% for homicide, and 60% for kidnapping. Earlier this month a proposal to restore capital punishment was debated in the Mexican Congress.

The Gruesome Murder case of habitual predator Joseph Edward Duncan III, was before a federal sentencing jury in Boise, Idaho yesterday. A story by AP writer Rebecca Boone reports that jurors watched a 2005 police interview of 8-year-old Shasta Groene describing how Duncan kidnapped, raped, and tortured her and 9-year-old brother Dylan, after killing their older brother and mother and the mother's fiance. Dylan was later murdered. Duncan, who is representing himself, has already been convicted of murdering Shasta's other family members. Duncan is also facing charges of murdering a young California boy in 1997. His criminal record includes multiple arrests and convictions for rape and molesting children. An earlier MSNBC story reports that Duncan underwent a series of failed treatments and refused to comply with therapists and law enforcement officials who tried to correct his behavior, which mental health evaluators diagnosed in 1980 as consistent with an antisocial personality and a sexual deviant. Had proper sentencing policies been in place, Duncan would never have seen the outside of a prison mental ward.

Habitual sex offender Jerry Buck Inman pleaded guilty to the robbery, rape and murder of a 20-year-old South Carolina engineering student in 2006. Inman was out of prison for earlier rape convictions just 9 months before Tiffany Marie Soures was found strangled to death with her bikini top. AP writer Seanna Adcox reports that Souers may not be Inman's only victim since his release. He is facing changes for the rape of a 28-year-old woman in Tennessee and the attempted rape of young Alabama woman.