FL Convicted Killer Faces Death Penalty, Again: Larry Hannan of the Florida Times-Union reports that DeShawn Leon Green faces a death sentence for the March 2009 murder of a man and attempted murder of a woman with an AR15 assault rifle he called baby.  Green is already serving a life sentence for an August 2009 murder, and faces another trial for a murder in April of 2009. 

TX Girlfriend Killer Scheduled for Execution: Reuters has this article discussing the execution of Donnie Lee Roberts set for Wednesday in Texas. Roberts was convicted of shooting his girlfriend to death in their home in 2003. He confessed to killing her because she would not give him money. Roberts had also confessed to killing a man in Louisiana in 1992 for which he did not stand trial.   Update:  here.