Teen Killed by Mistakenly Released Inmate:  A Washington teen who was murdered last year was killed by a man who should have been locked up in prison at the time of his killing.  Chris Ingalls of KING 5 News reports that 17-year-old Caesar Medina was fatally shot during a botched robbery at a Spokane tattoo parlor last May by 25-year-old Jeremiah Smith, who was later arrested and charged with first degree murder for the crime.  It was recently discovered, however, that Smith was one of 3,200 inmates in Washington State that were released early over the past 13 years because of a software glitch that miscalculated inmates' release dates.  Prison officials say that 30 offenders have been re-arrested and at least three were found to have committed new crimes when they should have been incarcerated.  These numbers are expected to grow.

FL Serial Killer to be Executed:  After decades of legal gymnastics, a Florida serial killer's date with death has finally arrived after the Florida Supreme Court struck down a request last month to stay the execution.  Dan Sullivan of the Tampa Bay Times reports that 53-year-old Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. was given three death sentences, the first in 1991, for the brutal murders of two young women and one teenage girl in 1986, but they were all overturned by 1995 when the state high court ruled that jurors should not have heard damning testimony from Bolin's ex-wife (deceased after the third trial) because he never waived his spousal privilege.  Bolin was tried again and convicted three more times, receiving death sentences from three more juries, but again, higher courts overturned the convictions because of legal errors.  Fortunately, the death sentence for his third conviction stuck in 2001, another came in 2007.  In 2012, at his 10^th and final trial, he received a life sentence for one of the murders.     He is set to die by lethal injection on Jan. 7.  Update:  Bolin was executed Thursday evening by lethal injection after the Supreme Court rejected his final appeal without comment.

DHS Sweep of Illegals Begins:  In an effort to offset another surge of illegal immigrants from Central America, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson announced Monday that a series of raids have been launched to deport some of the arrivals.  Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times reports that Johnson said that the first round of raids focused on Georgia, Texas and North Carolina and netted a total of 121 illegal immigrants, a minute fraction of the more than 110,000 Central Americans that jumped the border of the past year and a half.  U.S. officials are concerned with the possibility of another surge this year following a federal judge's ruling this summer that immigrant families, along with unaccompanied minors, must be released from detention quickly, mounting fears that yet another lax immigration policy will invite a new mass migration of immigrants from south of the border.  Jessica Vaughan, policy studies director at the Center for Immigration Studies, believes that the DHS  move could act as a deterrent but, "Until people believe that if they try to come here illegally they'll definitely be sent home quickly, it's not going to have any effect."