Cooey Executed After Supreme Court Rejects Obese Argument: An article from CNN News reports that an Ohio death row inmate Richard Cooey was executed today after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute plea that he was too fat to be executed. Cooey and a then-17-year-old accomplice were convicted of the brutal murders of Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreery, students at the University of Akron. The students were subjected to 3½ hours of rape, torture, stabbing and fatal bludgeoning.

Supreme Court Denies Death Row Inmate Troy Davis' Appeal: Washington Post staff writers William Branigin and Jerry Markon report that today the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by Troy Davis facing execution for the 1989 murder of a police officer. Today's order clears the way for Georgia to proceed with the execution of Troy Davis, three weeks after the high court granted him a last-minute stay.

Sex Offenders Must Register Their Online Information: An article from the Newsday by Juliann Vachon reports that social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook can now trace and expel potential sexual predators under a new law requiring sex offenders to submit all identifying Internet information along with home addresses. Under the law, signed yesterday by President Bush, registered sex offenders must submit all e-mail addresses, instant messenger names or other online identifiers for inclusion in the National Sex Offender Registry. Under the law, sex offenders not providing all Internet information can receive the same penalty as those who fail to register their home address - up to 10 years in prison.

Woman Found Guilty, Gets Life In Slayings Of 4: A story by Dale Lezon from the Houston Chronicle reports that although Christine Paolilla claimed her former boyfriend fired fatal gunshots at four young people five years ago, the former Clear Lake High School student from Houston, TX, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison on Monday. Paolilla was found guilty in the deaths of her friends, Rachael Koloroutis and Tiffany Rowell, both 18; and in the killings of Rowell's boyfriend, Marcus Precella, 19; and his cousin, Adelbert Sanchez, 21. Paolilla received an automatic life sentence because she was 17 at the time of the killings.