Gas Chamber Proposed by MO Murderers:  Two murderers on Missouri's death row claim that they are "too ill to be killed" by lethal injection. Tony Rizzo of the Kansas City Star reports that 47-year-old Russell Bucklew, sentenced to death in 1996 and granted a stay of execution in May 2014, argues that a "a rare, dangerous and sometimes debilitating congenital condition"  creates a significant risk that lethal injection would cause a painful execution.  55-year-old Ernest Johnson, facing execution for murdering three people during a 1994 robbery, won a high court stay last month, and now claims that a brain tumor has created a defect which might trigger seizures and convulsions during lethal injection.  Attorneys for the inmates are required to propose an alternative execution method and both have proposed the gas chamber, though no one has been put to death by lethal gas in the state since 1965.  The state's gas chamber is inside the now-closed Jefferson City prison.  Bucklew's attorneys insist that Missouri officials would have "plenty of time" to repair it if they choose to.

Syrian-born US Citizen Supplied Militants:  A U.S. citizen originally from Syria has been charged with smuggling rifle scopes, night-vision goggles and other military-style gear from the United States to Islamic militants in Syria.  Ben Nuckols of the AP reports that 50-year-old Amin al-Baroudi provided the insurgent group Ahrar el-Sham, which fights alongside al-Qaida's official branch in Syria and wants to establish an Islamic state, with gear between 2011 and 2013, confiding in an unnamed conspirator that he planned to bring $30,000 worth of material to Syria and train people how to use it.  He faces four charges related to violations of U.S. sanctions against Syria, and Commerce Department restrictions on exports there.  He is not accused of shipping any weapons.

Burglary Suspect Hides in Lake, Eaten by Gator:  A suspected burglar, attempting to evade capture, jumped in a Florida lake where he was killed by an 11-foot alligator.  Fox News reports that 22-year-old Matthew Riggins,was seen with another suspect walking behind homes in Barefoot Bay on Nov. 13, but police were unable to locate them.  Riggins was reported missing the following day, and his body was discovered 10 days later in a nearby lake with injuries indicative of being pulled under by the alligator and drowned.  After the alligator was killed, Riggins' hand and foot were found in its stomach.  A second person has been taken into custody for the burglaries.