Crime returns to NOLA

In apparent gang violence, five young men are shot to death just before dawn.
TIME

No kidding

This just in: 'Sex offenders have trouble finding jobs, friends after prison.'
Boston Globe/AP

Gotta be crazy

Scott Panetti is on Texas' death row for killing his wife's parents. He thinks the state wants to execute him to prevent him from preaching. Experts think he's mentally ill. Jurors thought he wasn't mentally ill enough.
New York Times

Bad recipe

Apparently, mixing the chemical cocktail used in lethal injections isn't an exact science and never has been.
Austin American-Statesman

The sounds of torture in America

In July 2004, five Tennessee sheriff's deputies who suspected Lester Siler of drug use went to his home to question him. When they asked Siler's wife and son to leave, Siler's wife, Jenny, secretly turned on a tape recorder. Siler refused to sign a consent to search his house, so the deputies tortured him for the next two hours. Listen to the tape here (mp3).
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