Cop Killer Opposes Execution Stay:   A Texas criminal who ran down a police officer in 2009, is scheduled for execution tonight.  The Associated Press reports that attorneys representing Daniel Lee Lopez have asked SCOTUS to stay his execution until additional review of claims that he is mentally incompetent and that he did not commit capital murder could be considered.  Lopez opposes these efforts, telling reporters "I've accepted my fate."  The registered sex offender, with priors for assault and child molestation, ran down and killed a Corpus Christi Police Lt. after fighting with another officer during a traffic stop.  A later search of his car uncovered a dozen packets of cocaine and a scale.    

Repeat Sex Offender Charged with Rape:  A habitual sex offender with priors for sexual battery and child molestation had been charged with the brutal rape of an Indiana woman.  WNDU of South Bend reports that habitual sex offender Jerry Wayne Young forced his way into a female acquaintance's home on October 16, 2012 at 3:00 AM, raping her twice and forcing her to perform oral sex.  Three years later Young was arrested and a DNA test matched genetic material taken from the victim.  Young had been charged with rape in 2000 but a jury failed to convict him.