CJLF's legal director, Kent Scheidegger, was a recent guest on KFI's "The John and Ken Show" discussing the death penalty.  Listen to the broadcast here.

Boston Terror Suspect Planned Attack on Pamela Geller:  The terror suspect who was fatally shot by law enforcement on Tuesday for charging at them with a knife had originally targeted the political activist who sponsored last month's "Draw Muhammad" cartoon contest.  Fox New reports that Usaama Rahim planned to behead Pamela Geller, the organizer of the event in Garland, Texas that was targeted by two radicalized Muslim gunmen.  The FBI says that Rahim had plotted the attack for a week, purchasing three fighting knives and a sharpener.

'Threat Level 1' Criminal Aliens Released by the Thousands:  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have discretionarily released over 3,700 "Threat Level 1" illegal immigrant criminals from custody onto U.S. soil over the past year.  Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times reports that DHS officials "have implied that their hands are tied by court rulings," but the numbers show that 57 percent of the criminal aliens that were released last year were done so at the discretion of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).  ICE officials claim that released criminals are equipped with electronic monitoring, but nearly all of them violated the terms of their release.

NE Petition Seeks to Bring Death Penalty to Public Vote:  A petition drive to bring the issue of capital punishment to a public vote is gaining steam in Nebraska, one week after the state's legislature overrode Gov. Pete Ricketts' veto to abolish the death penalty.  Alexandra Stone of KETV reports that death penalty supporters filed a referendum on Monday, initiating the petition process, with the goal of taking the debate to the polls.  If 10 percent of registered voters sign the petition, the repeal would be suspended until the voters decide the issue. 

Retrial Granted in Chandra Levy Case:  The man convicted in 2010 for the 2001 murder of federal intern Chandra Levy has been granted a new trial by a Washington judge.  Spencer S. Hsu of the Washington Post reports that the DC Public Defender claims that Ingmar Guandique's conviction was based on a lie spun by a former cellmates seeking favorable treatment from prosecutors, in exchange for testifying that Guandique confessed to the crime.  Although Guandique had assaulted two women in the same park where Levy was abducted and her remains were recovered, there are no eyewitnesses, forensic evidence or medical cause of death linking him to Levy's murder.