Illegal Charged With Rape:  A previously deported illegal alien has been charged with raping a young girl in Alabama.  Johathan Hardison of WSFA News reports that Amancio Bentancourt Martinez, 27, served time in prison for cocaine trafficking prior to his deportation in 2015.  He was re-arrested in Shelby County last November as a suspect, and was charged with 1st degree rape last  Wednesday.   

Nevada Murderer Found Dead in His Cell:  A twice convicted murderer whose death sentence was called off twice was found dead in his Nevada prison cell Saturday.  Chiara Giordano of the Independent reports that Scott Dozier had repeatedly said that he wanted to be executed and asked that his appeals be dropped.  In spite of this his execution had been postponed twice since 2007 by courts responding to claims that the state's lethal injection process might cause pain.  Dozier, a drug dealer, was convicted of the 2002 murder and mauling of a 26-year-old man in Phoenix and the robbery and dismembering of a 22-year-old man in Las Vegas the same year.  The Associated Press reports that Dozier apparently hung himself. 

To Black Activists, Most Black Lives Don't Matter:  The drive-by murder of a seven-year-old black girl in Houston on December 30, by an initially-reported white shooter, sparked hate crime allegations, blanket coverage by the news media and a $100,000 reward offer by anti-cop activist Shaun King for anyone who located him.  In today's City Journal, Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald reports that after police determined that the shooters were actually black gang members, King claimed that his outrage was not about race.  MacDonald notes that "It's worth remembering, though, the many other black children who have been victims of drive-by shootings without leading King to launch a national crusade" before reciting a long list of black children recently killed by black criminals.  "If Shaun King and other Black Lives Matter activists really want to save black children from the trauma of urban violence, they should put their efforts into rebuilding inner-city culture--above all, by revalorizing a married father as the best gift a mother can give her child. Fantasies about white violence against `black bodies' are a distraction from what is actually happening on American streets,"