Death Row Smuggling: "A former chief of staff for Bill Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas faces felony charges accusing her of trying to smuggle a knife and 48 tattoo needles onto the state's death row," Jon Gambrell reports for AP from Little Rock.

Fighting Back. "A 72-year-old Harlem business owner used a shotgun to blast four men who tried to rob his restaurant-supply business Thursday afternoon, killing two and sending two others to the hospital with gunshot wounds, the New York City police said." Christine Hauser and Sewell Chan have the story for the NYT.