Mississippi Executes Two Killers:  The state of Mississippi carried out executions of two rapist/murderers on Wednesday and Thursday according to this Associated Press story.  Gerald James Holland died Thursday for the 1986 murder of Krystal King on the girl's fifteenth birthday.  Before she died Krystal was raped beaten and stabbed.  An autopsy indicated that she died from asphyxiation from a ligature around her neck and clothing stuffed down her throat.  On Wednesday,  Paul Everett Woodward was executed for the 1986 rape and murder of 25-year-old Rhonda Crane.  Rick Cleveland of the Clarion Ledger reports that as Crane was driving to meet her family for a camping trip, Woodward used a logging truck  to block her car on Mississippi hwy 29.  He then kidnapped her at gunpoint, took her to a secluded area where she was raped and shot.  Crane's father found her body the next day.  The AP story also reports that on Thursday, Virginia executed double-murderer Darick Demorris Walker. 

SF DA Accused of Hiding Problems:  Jaxon Van Derbeken of the SF Chronicle reports that a Superior Court Judge declared in a ruling Thursday that District Attorney Kamala Harris' office had hidden information about corruption in the city's drug lab.  According to the story, the county's top drug prosecutor sent a memo to the "highest levels of the district attorney's office" about a lab technician with an undisclosed criminal record accused of skimming cocaine and intentionally sabotaging the drug analysis unit.  As a result, the district attorney's office has dismissed over 600 drug cases since the scandal was reported last February.